Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika paid emotional tribute to her late husband in her first public statement since the political activist’s murder. In a Turning Point USA livestream broadcast on Friday evening (12 September), a tearful Erika Kirk vowed to continue her husband’s work against ‘evil-doers’ and spoke directly to his killer, saying: “you have no idea of the first you have ignited.” Kirk also thanked Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance’s wife Usha for their support following his husband’s assassination on Wednesday. Watch Erika Kirk’s full statement above.

Kirk, a conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA was gunned down on Wednesday while speaking at a university event in Utah.

Kirk was shot in the neck while speaking in Utah on Wednesday, leaving behind his wife Erika and their two kids, a three-year-old daughter and a 16-month-old son.