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Erika Kirk sends message to people celebrating assassination of her husband
Erika Kirk delivered a message to people celebrating her late husband, Charlie Kirk's, assassination during a town hall conversation with CBS News' Bari Weiss.
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!Erika Kirk sent a message to anyone who celebrated the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk, during a preview of a town hall conversation on Wednesday.
"You’re sick. He’s a human being. You think he deserved that? Tell that to my 3-year-old daughter," she said, responding to a question from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss about the people who justified or celebrated his killing.
Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA, was shot and killed during a campus event in Utah in September.
"You want to watch, in high-res, the video of my husband being murdered and laugh, and say he deserves it? There’s something very sick in your soul. And I pray that God saves you," Kirk said. "I pray, because that is what is so wrong."
Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Dec. 3, 2025, in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times)
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Kirk said the internet has "dehumanized us" during the conversation with Weiss. The full town hall is set to air on Saturday.
Nationwide, there have been several instances of people publicly celebrating or mocking Kirk's assassination.
Less than a week after Kirk's Sept. 10 killing, a student on the Clemson University campus was caught on video mocking the commentator. An 18-year-old Texas Tech student was arrested and expelled after she was caught on video making disturbing comments at a vigil in September.
During an interview on "Outnumbered" on Wednesday, Kirk pushed back against conspiracy theorists?who have leveled a series of unfounded accusations about?the assassination of her husband.
