Charlie Kirk’s widow Erica Kirk said on Sunday that she forgives the person accused of killing her husband.
“On the cross, our savior said,” Father, forgive them. Because they don’t know what they do. ” That man. Husband’s memorialHis voice sheds tears with soft and on his face.
Robinson, 22, a 22-year-old Tyler, has been accused of increased murder on 10 September. Malignant shooting Charlie Kirk. Utah County Attorney General Jeff Gray said in a press conference on Tuesday that the state will be Look for death sentence For Robinson.
Erica Kirk, however, Told New York Times She wants Robinson’s punishment to be determined by the legal system – not his wishes.
“I have asked a lot of people,” Do you feel angry with this man? Like, do you want to seek death punishment? ” “I will be honest. I told my lawyer, I want the government to decide this. I do not want that man to have blood on my laser.”
Kirk repeated the message during his eulogy on Sunday. The 36 -year -old received a long standing ovation on calling on stage, and he was emotional during his comment.
“The answer to hate is not hate,” he said. “The answer we know from the gospel is love, and always loves.”
During her comment, Kirk reflected her relationship with her husband and her feelings during the day of her murder. He remembered seeing his lifeless body in the hospital and jerked, scary and “a level of heart pain I did not know, he also existed.”
He said, however, that she can “see the man I love,” “one, with a single gray hair on the side of his head and a faint smile on his face.
“He told me something important,” he reflected. “It came to know about a great mercy from God in this tragedy. When I saw that, it told me, Charlie was not suffering.”
Since the murder of her husband, Kirk said, “God’s love came in front of me.” She recalled a protection with another woman Usha Vance, a day after her husband’s death, during which she admitted, “Honestly, I don’t know how I am going to get through it.” Vance flew for Utah on Air Force two, and Charlie Kirk Casket brought for Phoenix On the official aircraft of the Vice President.
The second woman, however, was compared to the last 15 minutes of a flight, and told Erica Kirk that she would “be through these 15 minutes. And then the next 15 minutes.”
“Usha, I don’t think you realized it then, but those words were what I needed to listen,” she said.
On Thursday, Turning Point USA Board Unanimously chosen Kirk as the new CEO of the organization. Her husband established the conservative advocacy group in 2012.
In her ecstasy, Kirk promised to lift where her husband left.
“The world needs turning point USA,” she said. “It requires a group that will indicate young people away from the path of sorrow and sin.”
Kirks met in 2018 and married in 2021. Together, they have two children, a daughter and a son.
The monument took place inside the State Farm Stadium in Glandale, the house of Arizona Cardinals of NFL. Kirks lived in the nearby Scotsdel, Aries.
“I will remember him. I will remember him a lot because our marriage and our family were beautiful. They are still,” Kirk said.
