San Diego conservatives expressed their sorrow and dismay Wednesday at the death of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump.

Kirk, 31, was shot and killed at a Utah college event. Trump announced his death on social media and praised Kirk, the co-founder and CEO of the youth organization Turning Point USA, as “great, and even legendary.”

“No one understood or had the heart of the youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account.

Kirk has spoken in San Diego County at least four times in recent years — including at San Diego State University in May 2024 and UC San Diego this past May. Before his campus visits, Kirk spoke at San Diego’s right-wing Awaken Church in 2021 and 2023. The church urged p

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