“I’ll never forget,” Kirk recounted to Fox News host Jesse Watters. “I just kept saying, ‘Charlie’s been shot. He’s been shot. Take the kids. Stay safe. Take the kids. He’s been shot.'”
In a moment she could hardly comprehend, she recalled sprinting out of the treatment center, falling to the ground in the parking lot, and calling for security. “It was an unbelievable nightmare,” she said.
During her appearance on “Jesse Watters Prime Time,” McCoy mentioned it was the first time she had ever contacted Erica while touring the Turning Point USA campus.
Charlie Kirk was at a speaking event in Orem, Utah, for the conservative activist group he founded in 2012 when he was shot. Erica reflected on their last moments together, recalling how she kissed him late that night as he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life.
Despite doctors and police suggesting she wait until Charlie’s body was transferred to the mortuary, she couldn’t bring herself to do it.
Married in May 2021, the couple had two young children, a one-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter. With tears in her eyes, Kirk shared a moment with his daughter when he told her, “Daddy’s in heaven.” She innocently asked, “Do you think you’ll ever get there?”
“I told her, ‘Baby, someday we’ll all go,'” he said, wiping away tears.
Erica recalled walking into the room and seeing Charlie’s big grin, feeling as if he communicated that nothing could stop what he had built. “Did you think you could end this vision, this movement, this revival by killing me?” she imagined him thinking. “You took my body, but not my soul.”
Following her husband’s tragic death, Erica was appointed president of Turning Point USA. Just last week, she participated in her first campus event since the tragedy.
