Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is opening up about the moment she saw her husband's body after he was fatally shot. "His eyes were semi-open," Erika, 36, told The New York Times in an interview published on Sunday, September 21, her first since her husband was shot and killed on September 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. He was 31. "And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smike," Erika continued. "Like he died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.