The 2,460 seats in the Concert Hall at the John F. Kennedy Center were full to honor slain Turning Point USA founder and conservative activist Charlie Kirk Sunday evening.
Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday by a gunman on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, during the first stop of his fall speaking tour, which was scheduled to take him around the country.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of people outside of Sunday's event streamed the prayer vigil on their phones as they were unable to get into the venue, which was packed to capacity.
The vigil was organized by over 80 volunteers, many of them alumni of Kirk's organization. The event both started and concluded with a worship service, a testament to Kirk's Christian faith.
One of the most vocal responses from the crowd came as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. called Kirk the 'primary architect of his unification of President Trump.'
