Erika Kirk shared a heartbreaking account of seeing her husband Charlie’s body after his fatal shooting, describing a peaceful expression that made her believe he “died happy” and was “rescued by Jesus.”
NEW: Erika Kirk was on a flight to Utah immediately after Charlie was shot, and he was pronounced d*ad while she was in the air. The NYT: “The sheriff met her in the hospital. He offered her the option of seeing the body but, she said, advised against it. The bullet, he… pic.twitter.com/FlE5UxRGAM
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Erika Kirk was on a flight to Utah immediately after Charlie was shot, and he was pronounced dead while she was in the air. The NYT: “The sheriff met her in the hospital.
He offered her the option of seeing the body but, she said, advised against it. The bullet, he explained, had ravaged Mr. Kirk’s neck.”
“‘With all due respect,’ Ms. Kirk remembered saying, ‘I want to see what they did to my husband.’”
“She was braced for the worst, but what she saw surprised her. ‘His eyes were semi-open,’ Ms. Kirk said. ‘And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he’d died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.’
“She had not been able to kiss him goodbye when he left the house earlier that morning. She did so then.”