Charlie Kirk Age, Death, Wife, Children, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Charles James Kirk
Profession(s)	• Political Activist • Author • Media Personality • Organizer
Famous for	Being one of the most influential voices in Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) movement
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 11" (180 cm)
Eye Colour	Brown Green Hazel
Hair Colour	Light Ash Blonde
Personal Life
Date of Birth	14 October 1993 (Thursday)
Birthplace	Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA
Date of Death	10 September 2025 (Wednesday)
Place of Death	Orem, Utah, USA
Age (at the time of death)	32 Years
Death Cause	Gunshot Wound
Zodiac sign	Libra
Nationality	American
Hometown	Chicago, USA
School	Wheeling High School, Illinois, USA
College/University	Herper College, Illinois
Religion	Christianity
Political Inclination	Donald Trump Republican party
Hobbies	Writing, Reading
Social Media	• Instagram • Facebook • Twitter • LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital Status (at the time of death)	Married
Marriage Date	May 2021
Family
Wife/Spouse	Erika Kirk (Businesswoman, Podcaster, Philanthropist)
Children	Son- 1 Daughter- 1
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	$12 million (as of 2025)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Charlie Kirk

• Charlie Kirk was born in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and raised in Prospect Heights, USA.

• Kirk’s father is an architect, and his mother is a mental health counselor.

• Charlie was interested in politics from an early age. When he was in his junior year, he participated in the US Senate Mark Kirk campaign. In his senior year, he led a campaign to reverse a price increase for cookies at his school. During that time, he also wrote an essay for Breitbart News, in which he alleged liberal bias in high school textbooks. His essay was also published in the Fox Business newspaper.

• For his higher studies, Kirk enrolled at Harper College near Chicago, but dropped out and didn’t complete a degree or a certificate.

• In an interview, Kirk mentioned that once, when he was attending a speaking event on Youth Empowerment Day at Benedictine University, Illinois, he met Bill Montgomery, who encouraged him to engage in political activism full-time.

• In 2012, at the age of 18, Charlie, together with Bill Montgomery, founded Turning Point USA (TPUSA), an American nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college, and university campuses. Charlie was the CEO, chief fundraiser, and the public face of Turning Point USA from its founding to his death in September 2025.

• Later, he expanded TPUSA and started initiatives such as Professor Watchlist and School Board Watchlist, which targeted professors and educators with harassment campaigns aimed at silencing or removing those whose views opposed those of Turning Point.

• His income from Turning Point USA rose significantly, from about $27,000 annually in the early years to nearly $300,000. He purchased a condominium in Longboat Key, Florida, valued at about $855,000.

• In 2016, he was the youngest speaker at the Republican National Convention, a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1856 by the Republican Party in the United States.

• In 2018, Charlie Kirk was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law & Policy.

• In May 2019, he launched a campaign to recruit one million students for the 2020 Trump re-election campaign. However, after Donald Trump lost in election, TPUSA and the Trump campaign blamed each other for an overall decline in youth support for Trump.

• In November 2019, Kirk and Jerry Falwell Jr. co-founded the Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty. In 2020, the Falkirk Center spent at least $50,000 on political Facebook advertisements promoting Trump and Republican candidates. Later, this organisation was acquired by Liberty University, Virginia, and renamed “Standing for Freedom Center”.

• In 2019, he was awarded with honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities (D.Hum.) from Liberty University.

• Charlie had also strongly opposed Black Lives Matter movement in 2019.

• In March 2020, Charlie Kirk published his first book titled The MAGA Doctrine, a manifesto for the Make America Great Again movement.
  

  Charlie Kirk, while participating in Make America Great Again

• From October 2020 until his death, he hosted a daily three-hour radio talk show named The Charlie Kirk Show on Salem Media’s “The Answer” channel. In 2021, his podcast was ranked as the 21st-most-popular podcast on Apple Podcasts.
  

  Cover image of The Charlie Kirk Show

•  Kirk was known for “his repudiation of liberal college education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories”. Kirk promoted the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and described universities as “islands of totalitarianism.

• In 2020, during the COVID-19 Kirk opposed lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccinations, calling them unnecessary government steps.

• Before the early 2020s, Kirk considered himself secular and was against the role of religion in politics and government. Later, he became a Christian nationalist. In 2021, Kirk worked with California pastor Rob McCoy to start TPUSA Faith, aiming to encourage conservative Christians to vote Republican.

• Charlie Kirk was vocal on many social issues, including rejecting LGBTQ+ rights, gender ideology, immigration reforms, environmental, social, and governance business practices, and abortion until he died in 2025.

• He was a gun rights supporter and advocate who defended the Second Amendment, arguing that armed guards and detectors could prevent school shootings. In an April 2023 Turning Point USA event in Utah, Kirk said,

I think it’s worth it, I think it’s worth having a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

• Charlie Kirk got married in May 2021. His wife won the Miss Arizona USA pageant competition in 2012.

• On 10 September 2025, while speaking at a TPUSA event, “The American Comeback Tour”, at Utah Valley University, he was fatally shot in the neck in front of about 30,000 people. Kirk’s wife and children were also present during the incident.
  

  Charlie Kirk, before his death, while speaking at a TPUSA event in Utah

• Just before he was shot, he was discussing mass shootings. One of the students asked, Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” and Kirk’s last words before being shot were his reply,

“Counting or not counting gang violence?”

• After the incident, Kirk was taken to the Timpanogos Regional Hospital in critical condition, where he was declared dead.

• After the death of Kirk, Donald Trump issued an order for all US flags to be flown at half-staff throughout the United States in his honor until 14 September 2025 at 6:00 pm.

• During the initial investigation, two people were arrested; however, they were both released later as neither of them was the shooter. The FBI also released CCTV footage and photos of a person of suspect.
  

  A photo of the suspect shared by the FBI

• On 11 September 2025, Donald Trump announced that Charlie Kirk would be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.