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Riley Gaines cried the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Who she called “A Friend and Mentor”, in a long emotional video in which she condemned the act of political violence against the popular conservative activist.
Sheaths, Outkick host “Gaines for girls” The Podcast and an All-American NCAA swimmer 12 times, shared his reflections in a video published by Outkick on Thursday. The video occurred after the murder of Kirk, which was fatally struck by a single ball during a speaking event on the University of Utah Valley campus on Wednesday.
Charlie Kirk speaks at the University of Utah Valley on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah, before the assassination. (Trent Nelson / The Salt Lake Tribune / Getty Images)
“I lost a friend, a mentor, the person I am going to,” Ducts started. “The intellectual spirit and the genius which is Charlie Kirk, the generational talent, I honestly believe that his impact alone as a person and what he could do through Turning Point, of which I am a very proud contributor, I talk about this program all the time, what he could do is to transform a nation, to relive a culture. A culture of young people, people like me.”
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Ducts, which sat alongside Kirk for the event “American Comeback Tour” in San Francisco State University In May, cried for Kirk’s wife and two young children.
“I lost a friend and a mentor, Erika lost her husband, I can’t help but think of her. It is one of the nicest and most compassionate women you could imagine. It was her biggest fear, I mean that we talked about it. It is his biggest fear, I cannot be scratched from the media, two children have lost their father. social. “
Like many of those who spoke on social networks after the assassination, Gaines called for the lack of tolerance for the open speech in the United States
Allison Hemingway-Witty shouts after Charlie Kirk was shot down during the visit to Turning Point at the University of Utah Valley in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley / The Deseret News via AP)
Chronology of Charlie Kirk’s assassination
“This nation has lost the best most effective and most influential activist he has ever had and I don’t even speak simply of a conservative activist. I speak on both sides,” she said, adding later: “We don’t have to live like that. We should not have to live like that, in the fear of speaking the truth-raw and not filtered.”
Gaines said that despite the tragedy of Kirk’s murder, its values of faith shared with Kirk kept it “anchored”.
“I am so grateful, it’s really like keeping myself is – any quantity founded – it is to know that Charlie knew that Jesus. Knowing that he was a man who fought for the hope and the promise of eternal life, there is nothing of this world that counted in Charlie. Of course, he loved his family, of course, he loved this nation, to live a life in the form of Christ.”
Riley Gaines delivers a speech to Penn State. (Riley Gaines)
Gaines recommended Kirk for his will “to enter the belly of the beast” and to talk about the values that were cared for.
Police confirmed on Friday That a suspect in Kirk’s murder was arrested. He was identified as Tyler Robinson, a 22 -year -old Utah resident. Utah governor Spencer Cox said that Robinson’s family member contacted a family friend who then contacted the Washington County Sheriff’s office “with information that Robinson had confessed to them or hinted that he had committed the incident.”
