She knew the truth: that the 22-year-old, video game obsessed young man was exactly the kind of person her husband was trying to reach. Charlie Kirk has been dead for nearly two weeks, his life cut short by a murderous assassin drunk on leftist outrage and lies. Charlie Kirk would have fought for that young man's soul just as he has fought for so many others. The young men who feel like they have no direction, no purpose, no faith, and no reason to live,” she told the mourners. The man who killed Charlie was the very kind of man Charlie was trying to save.