The 31-year-old conservative political activist was shot and killed during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah on Wednesday.
Visibly shaken, an emotional Savannah Chrisley took to TikTok on Wednesday evening to mourn the death of her friend Charlie Kirk, revealing that she had been set to join him on his speaking tour to college campuses.
The conservative political activist was shot during a student Q&A discussion on gun violence on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah. Kirk was rushed to the hospital, but ultimately succumbed to his wounds and died. He was 31. The shooter has not yet been apprehended, according to officials.
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In her video, the 28-year-old reality star said, “Today’s been a tough day. The past two and a half years of my life have been some of the hardest years I’ve ever had to endure, but in those two and a half years, I’ve met so many people great people and lifelong friends, and one of those people that brought me into their world was Charlie Kirk.
She went on to describe Kirk’s impact on her life, saying that he was “someone who gave me a voice as a woman, made me feel like I had the power to show up in this world.”
Her caption echoed this sentiment, with Chrisley writing, “He believed in me and in my family when the world turned its back. He saw potential, he spoke life into us, and he reminded me that God still had a plan even when I couldn’t see it myself. That kind of belief changes you forever.”
Describing herself as “numb,” Chrisley revealed that she “was supposed to be standing next to him at every college this October. Instead, I sit here with a broken heart, devastated beyond words.”
She went on to urge people to “take politics out of it” and focus on the facts. “Charlie was a young man, a husband, and a father,” she wrote. “He had so much life left to live. My heart aches for Erika and their children. No words will ever be enough to fill the space his love once held.”
“Charlie … you changed America. You changed me. You changed my family,” she concluded her caption. “Rest easy, my friend. Heaven has gained a warrior ❤️”
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She called Kirk’s wife, Erika Frantzve, one of the “kindest, most loving human beings I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing,” asking her followers to “pray for Charlie, pray for his parents, his children, his entire family.”
“I’m ashamed that this is the world my children will grow up in,” Chrisley said in her video. “But what I will not do is allow Charlie’s name to ever die. And it won’t. He created a movement. His legacy is one that I hope I can build half of for my kids.”
On his scheduled “American Comeback Tour” as part of Turning Point USA, the political activist organization he co-founded at just 18 years old, Kirk’s next scheduled stops were at Colorado State University, University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, and Utah State University in September.
In October, when Chrisley said she was set to join him at his “Prove Me Wrong Table,” Kirk was scheduled for appearances in Montana State University, University of North Dakota, Indiana University, Louisiana State University, River Center Theatre, and Ole Miss.
In a statement released Wednesday, per Us Weekly, Turning Point USA said, “It’s with a heavy heart that we, the Turning Point USA leadership team, write to notify you that early this afternoon, Charlie went to his eternal reward with Jesus Christ in Heaven.”
