The assassination of Charlie Kirk invites the Utah community to calls to unity

In the days that followed the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Utahns united in the commemorative monuments and candlelit watches to honor the life and inheritance of the 31 -year -old conservative influencer.

“It is really important that we support each other,” Fox News Digital, President of the State Senate of the Utah Republican, Stuart Adams. “I am very proud of our community to have met to try to support each other while we are progressing through it.”

While local leaders urge the community to rely on their friends, family and neighbors, many have echoed the appeal of the Republican Governor of Utah.

“History will dictate if it is a turning point for our country, but each of us can choose now if it is a turning point for us,” said Cox at a press conference on Friday after announcing that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, had been arrested.

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An honorary Kirk memorial at the Timpanogos Regional Hospital is filled with posters “We Love You, Charlie”, American flowers and flags.

Adams said it is essential that the Americans put their phones, as Kirk encouraged, to contribute something constructive to the community.

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“It is a turning point for America because we see what we want to become, what we want to do, what we want America to be, and we surely do not want America to be filled with hatred. We want to fill it with love, the type of discourse and freedom of expression that Charlie represented,” said Adams.

Utah prosecutor General Derek Brown told Fox News Digital that Utahns can honor Kirk’s life by modeling his commitment to open dialogue.

“He embarked on a productive and respectful dialogue, and he showed a model on how to engage in a productive way with people with whom you could disagree,” said Brown, adding that “he models the very behavior that he encouraged people to do” until his death.

As a prosecutor general, Brown has collaborated with local and federal organizations for the application of the law and the United States Ministry of Justice to ensure that the Kirk assassin “pays the price of what he has done”.

“If it is the law of the state, if it is federal law, if it is a combination of the two, we will make sure that justice is done in this case,” said Brown.

While Brown carries out his work, he said that it was the work of the community “to learn to face what happened, to learn to heal”.

“I have people close to me in my own family and in my own staff, who was part of the experience. They were there, they saw that it happens. I think it is important for us to treat trauma and experience and to understand what it is and, ideally, to use it to bring us together,” he said.

Students and residents honored Charlie Kirk with flowers and posters in a memorial outside the University of Utah Valley. (Fox News Digital / Deirdre Heavey)

Taylor Bentley, a Utah resident who said he was 15 to 20 meters from Kirk when he was murdered, Fox News Digital told the message of the unity of community leaders, in particular the governor.

And Brown agreed that Cox’s unifying message “presented the best we have to offer as a state”.

Bentley said Cox “did a phenomenal job by pushing a message of unity, faith, hope and embracing the message that Charlie pushed there for open dialogue, and to avoid violence, and to approach our disagreements with words instead of violence”.

The governor said that Kirk’s “political assassination” was an “attack on American experience”, and that he exhorted not only residents of Utah, but the Americans, to experience Kirk’s inheritance by committing peacefully and condemning political violence.

Since the assassination on Wednesday, Utah residents have organized several events honoring Kirk’s life. Friday evening, hundreds of students from Utah State University gathered for a vigil organized by the Turning Point USA section of the campus.

In Orem City Park on Thursday evening, local students and residents paid tribute during a candlelit vigil.

A memorial honoring conservative influencer Charlie Kirk at the Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah. (Fox News Digital / Deirdre Heavey)

An honorary Kirk memorial at the Timpanogos Regional Hospital is filled with posters “We Love You, Charlie”, American flowers and flags. More panels and flowers have been placed for Kirk on the University of Utah Valley campus.

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The flags fly throughout the state to half of the staff this week, and many also gathered for a vigil at the Capitol of the Utah State on Wednesday evening after the Kirk assassination.