Erika Kirk was rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after gunfire erupted at the Washington Hilton Hotel on Saturday evening. “I just want to go home,” the Turning Point USA CEO said as she was escorted out of the event following the shooting.
“I just want to go home,” Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk, was heard saying through tears in a video, after suspected shooter Cole Allen stormed a security checkpoint at the hotel — where the WHCD was being held in the ballroom — reportedly with a shotgun, handgun, and several knives.
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The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — which transpired about 20 minutes after President Donald Trump arrived — comes more than seven months after Erika Kirk’s husband was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10.
President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and Vice President JD Vance, among
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