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Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika, delivered a tearful address following his tragic shooting on the campus of Utah Valley University. The right-wing activist was shot dead during a speaking event in Orem. His alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, was apprehended after turning himself in.

 

In her heartfelt speech, Erika Kirk proclaimed, "My husband’s voice will remain," and she extended gratitude to the first responders for their efforts. The organisation, co-founded by Kirk and Turning Point USA, has arranged a memorial on September 21 at Arizona's State Farm Stadium.

 

The livestream, conducted from their Arizona headquarters, featured Erika standing by her husband’s empty chair, quoting the Bible and mentioning his admiration for US President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance, among other sentiments.

 

Erika thanked several individuals and entities, including the White House, for their support. Emphasising Charlie’s devotion to his family, she shared touching words with their children, assuring them of their father’s love. She also remarked on continuing her husband’s initiatives, confirming his tour and podcast will proceed.

 

Turning Point USA hailed Kirk as a “martyr” and “pioneer,” while US President Trump pledged a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. Utah Valley University President Dr Astrid Tuminez announced the resumption of classes with enhanced security from 17 September, as the community seeks recovery from the event.

 

 

 

Key Takeaways

 

• Charlie Kirk was shot during a campus event in Utah.
• His widow, Erika, vowed to preserve his legacy and continue his work.
• President Trump plans to honour Kirk with a posthumous award.

 

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  Adapted by ASEAN Now from BBC 2025-09-14

 

 

It was actually a dividing hate speech

Whatever speeches - once dialogue silences and people resort to violence and murder weapon ....... 

This was a professional marksman and, to my irrelevant opinion, should meet Kirk anytime soon. This though is not possible as one ends in hell ......... 

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

 

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

 

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

 

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

 

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

 

There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022

 

Let's just say it out loud charlie Kirk was a blazing idiot and an absolute hater. His death does not change that, and there's no reason to attempt to revise his lifetime and make him into a saint. 

43 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

It was actually a dividing hate speech

This. America's "us against them" hate-policy, is baffling to watch. The US have never been more divided than today, and this speech was fueling that. 

 

This shooting wasn't about the lefts against the rights, but about one confused, insecure, easy manipulated single individual doing a crazy act of horror. Because of all the hate you guys throw at each other every single day.

1 minute ago, thaibreaker said:

This. America's "us against them" hate-policy, is baffling to watch. The US have never been more divided than today, and this speech was fueling that. 

 

This shooting wasn't about the lefts against the rights, but about one confused, insecure, easy manipulated single individual doing a crazy act of horror. Because of all the hate you guys throw at each other every single day.

Thanks for this comment.

However, many/most posters will mark you as a deluded woke Lefty.

59 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

Whatever speeches - once dialogue silences and people resort to violence and murder weapon ....... 

This was a professional marksman and, to my irrelevant opinion, should meet Kirk anytime soon. This though is not possible as one ends in hell ......... 

A bullet from that gun would send him flying backwards and rip half his throat out, not a little gurgling of blood !  The whole episode stinks, with security guards giving signals, the 2 patsy’s , the plane - owned by a rich Jew.. departing 20 min later, and turning off their signal, the rifle “found “ in the woods, but that wasn’t on the person as he jumped off the roof… ect ect 

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

 

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

 

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

 

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

 

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

 

There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022

 

Let's just say it out loud charlie Kirk was a blazing idiot and an absolute hater. His death does not change that, and there's no reason to attempt to revise his lifetime and make him into a saint. 

 

Enough said. Sometimes people get what they deserve. They didn't have to kill him....just vote against him.

2 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

This was a professional marksman

 

No, it was a rank amateur 22 year old furry who lived with a transsexual and was an ANTIFA  susbcriber.

 

He aimed for the head and failed to calculate his elevated position, so he hit the neck by accident. 

 

Highly experienced snipers came to that conclusion.

A martyr and pioneer my a.s. 

Sure takes some of the media attention away from the Epstein files. By design or by accident? Who knows. 
Maybe it was suicide the same as Epstein. 

5 hours ago, fanof3d said:

 

Enough said. Sometimes people get what they deserve. They didn't have to kill him....just vote against him.

Or in this particular case vote against absolutely everything he represents. 

8 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

It was actually a dividing hate speech

You really are a piece of work!

I didn't see much grieving there. A day after her husband died, she has the composure to go on air to announce she personally will take charge of a revenge campaign, in the name of Jesus, with his boundless love, to unleash fury, the likes the World has never seen. Actually, the world has seen it before, by a certain person by the name of Josef Goebbels. In his words :"Do you want total war" 

2 hours ago, thecyclist said:

I didn't see much grieving there. A day after her husband died, she has the composure to go on air to announce she personally will take charge of a revenge campaign, in the name of Jesus, with his boundless love, to unleash fury, the likes the World has never seen. Actually, the world has seen it before, by a certain person by the name of Josef Goebbels. In his words :"Do you want total war" 

 

Comparing the grieving widow of an assassinated man, mother of two children, to Joseph Goebbels. A new low on Aseannow.

If Charlie Kirk had not been shot I wouldn't have been aware of his existence.

14 hours ago, zepplin said:

A bullet from that gun would send him flying backwards and rip half his throat out, not a little gurgling of blood !  The whole episode stinks, with security guards giving signals, the 2 patsy’s , the plane - owned by a rich Jew.. departing 20 min later, and turning off their signal, the rifle “found “ in the woods, but that wasn’t on the person as he jumped off the roof… ect ect 

A bullet from a 30-06 would not send someone flying backwards.  If it could, then when the rifle was fired, it would also send the shooter backwards!   You have been watching too many fake shootings on TV and in Movies.  

 

Here is a video of a man, being shot with a 7.62x51mm round, the equivalent of the older 30-06 in foot pounds of energy.   Watch as he is, not, sent flying backwards when shot!

 

 

 

13 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

No, it was a rank amateur 22 year old furry who lived with a transsexual and was an ANTIFA  susbcriber.

 

He aimed for the head and failed to calculate his elevated position, so he hit the neck by accident. 

 

Highly experienced snipers came to that conclusion.

What I have been reading and hearing is, the assassins bullet hit Kirk's metal armor chest plate, fragmented, and a fragment went up, into the throat, then possibly into his brain.   

 

This is also from shooting experts that I think watched the video, frame by frame, and came to that conclusion.  Not just one, but two or more. 

 

I have seen videos of shots made on armor chest plates, some just metal where the bullet fragments into multiple pieces, and some that have a layer of some other material designed to catch, stop, or slow down the fragmented pieces.   This is an issue when bullets hit metal.

 

I shoot at a range that had armor plate targets at the 200 yard berm.   The armor plates were in front of a dirt berm that is 20 feet tall.   There is also a berm to the side that is 12-15 feet tall.   The armor plates were removed when a business neighbor found bullet fragments on top of a shed on their property.  That shed is 150 to 200 yards from where the armor plate targets were set up.  Fragments flying that far may have the capability of causing a lethal wound to someone near the impact point. 

boohoo

 

and now an even good one for t

4 hours ago, radiochaser said:

What I have been reading and hearing is, the assassins bullet hit Kirk's metal armor chest plate, fragmented, and a fragment went up, into the throat, then possibly into his brain.   

 

This is also from shooting experts that I think watched the video, frame by frame, and came to that conclusion.  Not just one, but two or more. 

 

I have seen videos of shots made on armor chest plates, some just metal where the bullet fragments into multiple pieces, and some that have a layer of some other material designed to catch, stop, or slow down the fragmented pieces.   This is an issue when bullets hit metal.

 

I shoot at a range that had armor plate targets at the 200 yard berm.   The armor plates were in front of a dirt berm that is 20 feet tall.   There is also a berm to the side that is 12-15 feet tall.   The armor plates were removed when a business neighbor found bullet fragments on top of a shed on their property.  That shed is 150 to 200 yards from where the armor plate targets were set up.  Fragments flying that far may have the capability of causing a lethal wound to someone near the impact point. 

It is sad to me that the image I have is ghastly. Nothing can calm that.

I was not likeley to read his debates as he offered me nothing. But the image.

13 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Or in this particular case vote against absolutely everything he represents. 

What he represents, you mean like freedom of speach, your hate for everything right is going to be the undoing of you. Your constant hate speach and others like you is what is creating a division in our country that is never going to be rectified.

6 hours ago, radiochaser said:

What I have been reading and hearing is, the assassins bullet hit Kirk's metal armor chest plate, fragmented, and a fragment went up, into the throat, then possibly into his brain.   

 

This is also from shooting experts that I think watched the video, frame by frame, and came to that conclusion.  Not just one, but two or more. 

 

I have seen videos of shots made on armor chest plates, some just metal where the bullet fragments into multiple pieces, and some that have a layer of some other material designed to catch, stop, or slow down the fragmented pieces.   This is an issue when bullets hit metal.

 

I shoot at a range that had armor plate targets at the 200 yard berm.   The armor plates were in front of a dirt berm that is 20 feet tall.   There is also a berm to the side that is 12-15 feet tall.   The armor plates were removed when a business neighbor found bullet fragments on top of a shed on their property.  That shed is 150 to 200 yards from where the armor plate targets were set up.  Fragments flying that far may have the capability of causing a lethal wound to someone near the impact point. 

 

2 hours ago, sharot724 said:

It is sad to me that the image I have is ghastly. Nothing can calm that.

I was not likeley to read his debates as he offered me nothing. But the image.

 

Yes, images and actual wounds are frequently ghastly.   

7 hours ago, radiochaser said:

What I have been reading and hearing is, the assassins bullet hit Kirk's metal armor chest plate, fragmented, and a fragment went up, into the throat, then possibly into his brain.   

 

This is also from shooting experts that I think watched the video, frame by frame, and came to that conclusion.  Not just one, but two or more. 

 

I have seen videos of shots made on armor chest plates, some just metal where the bullet fragments into multiple pieces, and some that have a layer of some other material designed to catch, stop, or slow down the fragmented pieces.   This is an issue when bullets hit metal.

 

I shoot at a range that had armor plate targets at the 200 yard berm.   The armor plates were in front of a dirt berm that is 20 feet tall.   There is also a berm to the side that is 12-15 feet tall.   The armor plates were removed when a business neighbor found bullet fragments on top of a shed on their property.  That shed is 150 to 200 yards from where the armor plate targets were set up.  Fragments flying that far may have the capability of causing a lethal wound to someone near the impact point. 

 

Yes, I saw an influencer postulate that theory but it contradicts what one of the most experienced snipers in the US said when he analyzed the shot. He thought the Perp aimed at the head, missed and hit the neck.

 

We will have to wait for further news, and we will no doubt find out if the "fragmented bulet that hit chest plate" theory has any mileage. I rather doubt it, but we will find out how he died I'm sure.

 

Either way of course, if he aimed at the chest, and the bullet hit the neck, it's still an acicidental shot. I don't think this theory is accurate though, because 1) We have zero evidence for it 2) these chest plates are small and only cover the heart area 3) It's a very convulted theory 4) As an amateur 20 something kid without sniper training it's more likely the Perp aimed at the head rather than the chest. 5) That's what top sniper said happened.

On 9/15/2025 at 9:00 AM, spidermike007 said:

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

 

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

 

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

 

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

 

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

 

There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022

 

Let's just say it out loud charlie Kirk was a blazing idiot and an absolute hater. His death does not change that, and there's no reason to attempt to revise his lifetime and make him into a saint. 

 

While nobody deserves to be murdered, these comments make it clear that this guy was joining in the backwards, hate filled, prejudiced chorus of the MAGA movement. 

 

On 9/15/2025 at 9:00 AM, spidermike007 said:

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

 

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

 

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

 

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

 

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

 

There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022

 

Let's just say it out loud charlie Kirk was a blazing idiot and an absolute hater. His death does not change that, and there's no reason to attempt to revise his lifetime and make him into a saint. 

 

Is posting this same out of context nonsense over and over again helping you cope with the fact you are on the side of evil satanic demons who are gleeful that someone assassinated a young father of 2 young kids as they didn't like his opinions?    

14 minutes ago, James105 said:

 

Is posting this same out of context nonsense over and over again helping you cope with the fact you are on the side of evil satanic demons who are gleeful that someone assassinated a young father of 2 young kids as they didn't like his opinions?    

 

If this post is not a perfect example of hyperbolic extreme exaggeration, I don't know what is. Fox news and the radical right-wing propaganda mills are spawning a whole league of nonsense spewing, hate filled, conspiracy theory loving loyalists. 

13 minutes ago, James105 said:

 

Is posting this same out of context nonsense over and over again helping you cope with the fact you are on the side of evil satanic demons who are gleeful that someone assassinated a young father of 2 young kids as they didn't like his opinions?    

It is quite astonishing to me how MAGA has descended to a level where some of the less intelligent supporters are simply reduced to slogans, name calling as a juvenile tribute to their political Master, and memes rather than intelligent discussions.

 

All Democrats are communist

All Democrats are baby killers

All Democrats support trans rights. 

All democrats are woke

 

Do you know where we get our power from? We drink the blood of infants in basements of pizza parlors. 

Being a father of two young children just does not mean anything. Most people are fathers, and using that as a reason to lament his passing is somewhat purile and rings false. 

 

It's about as lame as saying thoughts and prayers. 

8 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

It is quite astonishing to me how MAGA has descended to a level where some of the less intelligent supporters are simply reduced to slogans, name calling as a juvenile tribute to their political Master, and memes rather than intelligent discussions.

 

All Democrats are communist

All Democrats are baby killers

All Democrats support trans rights. 

All democrats are woke

 

Do you know where we get our power from? We drink the blood of infants in basements of pizza parlors. 

Being a father of two young children just does not mean anything. Most people are fathers, and using that as a reason to lament his passing is somewhat purile and rings false. 

 

It's about as lame as saying thoughts and prayers. 

Well said, thank you. It is truly sad how folks that have an aptitude for hate and lean towards being victims can just, hook line and sinker, buy into the obvious propaganda of the right wing media. A media machine who's true agenda is amassing power and control. It's the old oligarchy playbook. Create an enemy for people to hate. In modern day USA it is "the radical baby blood drinking left"

22 hours ago, Keeenok Powell said:

You really are a piece of work!

Why do you think that?

6 hours ago, StandardIssue said:

Well said, thank you. It is truly sad how folks that have an aptitude for hate and lean towards being victims can just, hook line and sinker, buy into the obvious propaganda of the right wing media. A media machine who's true agenda is amassing power and control. It's the old oligarchy playbook. Create an enemy for people to hate. In modern day USA it is "the radical baby blood drinking left"

You mentioned power and control, but what about money? In the history of America have the politicians on the right ever been this greedy? How many billions has Trump made since January? And how many on the right are questioning his legitimate right to do that using the pulpit of the presidency as a franchise.