Mourners quietly gathered in the parking lot of Cornerstone Church in Cleveland on Saturday night, Sept. 13, to honor Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, who was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025, while debating with students at a college in Utah. The vigil was not widely publicized, but word spread on social media, drawing a couple of dozen people who came to grieve, pray, and reflect on the loss.
Among them was Ewa Johnson, a Polish woman from Montgomery, Texas. Johnson said she learned about the gathering online while searching for a way to honor Kirk’s memory. Though she never met Kirk personally, she felt a connection through their shared background.
“We were there different years, but we went to the same schools,” Johnson explained, noting that both she and Kirk had attended the same high school and college. “I used to listen to Charlie a few years ago, and then kind of stopped. I started again when Trump was running for president last year.”
For Johnson, the news of Kirk’s assassination was shocking and deeply personal.
“Nobody deserves to die like this,” she said, her voice heavy with emotion. “I would never wish anybody dead.”
Kirk’s death, she believes, has brought out both the best and worst in humanity.
Johnson said that as soon as she learned of his death, she began praying.
“It was immediate,” she said. “I just bowed my head and prayed for him.”
Faith has always been an important part of Johnson’s life, though she admitted that her commitment to attending church had waned in recent years. Raised in the Catholic tradition, she used to attend Mass every Sunday. But after moving to Montgomery, she gradually stopped going.
“My sister asked me a couple of weeks ago if I was still going to church,” Johnson said. “I had no excuse. I just stopped going.”
Now, in the wake of Kirk’s death, she said she feels a renewed pull back toward her faith.
“Ironically, I think Charlie’s death is my turning point,” she said.
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“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” John 15:18-19
There’s nothing Christian about honoring a white supremacist, racist, heretic. Charlie Kirk was an evil person with a black heart full of hate. He deserves no honor or respect from decent people.
Then you evidently didn’t follow Charlie Kirk because he was not racist. Why not go to his website and view for yourself.
A moment of silence costs not a thing as well as respect.