Erika Kirk, the widow of the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, is sharing the final message she sent her husband before he was shot and killed. "He got up and I could hear him eating something in the kitchen. He'd been waiting all summer to begin touring," Erika, 36, told The New York Times in an interview published on Sunday, September 21, recalling the morning before her husband was fatally shot. Because her husband left for Provo, Utah, so early in the morning, she did not get to kiss him goodbye. Instead, she says she simply texted her husband "I love you.