Charlie Kerk Erika’s wife wears a blood -stained necklace

Erika KirkWife of the dead conservative activist Charlie KerkIt opens to the way she keeps her late husband in his aftermath Shock and surprise.

“To this day, I cannot go to a sleep room,” I told Erika, 36, 36 years old New York Times In an interview published on Sunday, September 21 – the first of which was shot on her husband and killed on September 10.

“I am going to sleep,” I continued.

While the young widow avoids her shared bedroom, she was able to keep a piece of her husband with her while moving in the days and weeks that followed his killing. Now, Erika wears the necklace of her husband, St. Michael – the same necklace he was wearing when he was shot in the neck.

“The paramedics torn it from his body while trying to stop the bleeding.” New York Times He writes. “The blood remained on the incision of the cross.”

The founder of Turning Point Usa was holding an event speaking at the University of Utah Valley when he was shot in the neck of 200 yards. The political activist was quickly transferred to a nearby hospital, where he announced his death later. It was 31.

In the same interview, Erika remembers seeing her husband’s body in the hospital despite a local sheriff urging her not, due to the severity of Charlie’s deadly injury.

“With all due respect,” I remembered I told Sharif, “I want to see what they did with my husband.”

Then she remembered the port how her husband’s body appeared.

“His eyes were almost open,” she said. “He had this, and he knew, a smile of half of Mona Lisa. Just as happy died. Just as Jesus saved him. The bullet came, and he declined, and he was in heaven.”

Two days after her husband was killed, the authorities took A 22 -year -old suspect In reservation after he delivered himself at the request of his parents. Despite the allegations submitted by many prominent Republican politicians, including the President and Vice President of the United States, the authorities did not find any evidence indicating that the suspected shooter had relationships with any left -walled groups or left -wing groups.

“Every indicator so far is that this was a truly bad person because he found Kirk’s ideology in person in person,” said a person familiar with the ongoing investigation. NBC News Saturday, September 21.

While her husband stands out at a general memorial ceremony held at the State Pharm Stadium in Glenel, Arizona, on Sunday, Erika said that she forgave the man who was claiming to be responsible for the death of her husband.

She said to the crowd: “I forgive him because he did not.” “The answer to hatred is not hatred.”