Erika Kirk is opening up about the heartbreaking final moments before her husband, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, was assassinated earlier this month.

In an emotional interview with The New York Times, Erika revealed the last message she sent Charlie the morning he left for Provo, Utah, to launch his campus tour.

“He got up and I could hear him eating something in the kitchen. He’d been waiting all summer to begin touring,” she recalled. Because he left so early, she didn’t get to kiss him goodbye — instead, she sent a simple text: “I love you.”

Hours later, Charlie, 31, was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University.

The Flight She’ll Never Forget
When Charlie’s longtime assistant, Michael McCoy, called to say her husband had been shot, Erika immediately boarded a plane from Arizona to Utah.