Charlie Kirk
Spouse Wears Blood Stained Pendant in Wake of Capturing
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Erika Kirk is holding tight to a heartbreaking reminder of her late husband Charlie Kirk — the blood stained pendant he was sporting when he was gunned down lower than two weeks in the past.
In an interview with The New York Occasions, Erika revealed she now wears the small St. Michael icon that was ripped from Charlie’s physique by medics as they fought to cease the bleeding on the Turning Level USA occasion in Utah. The tiny cross nonetheless carries traces of his blood in its crevice … a haunting memento of the second America misplaced the conservative activist.
Erika stated how the sheriff urged her to not view her husband’s physique after the bullet pierced his neck however she insisted on saying goodbye. “With all due respect, I need to see what they did to my husband,” she stated. On the hospital, she kissed him one remaining time, describing how his “semi-open eyes” and “Mona Lisa-like half-smile” regarded as if “he’d died pleased. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet got here, he blinked, and he was in heaven.”
Now left to choose up the items, the mom of two says her grief is overwhelming … admitting she will’t even enter her bed room and rotates the place she sleeps every night time. She additionally confided she hasn’t washed the towels Charlie utilized in his remaining bathe, unable to let go of even the smallest traces of his presence.
