SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

California State Senator Shannon Grove held back tears as she reflected on the loss of her friend Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.

"What happened today to Charlie is sheer evil," the Republican from Bakersfield told KCRA 3 in an interview shortly after President Donald Trump announced Kirk had died.

"What gives me real peace is that he went around to these college campuses in his entire life, since he was a very young person, and he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior and one of the last things that he spoke on this earth was sharing about that love that he had to thousands of students that were watching him," she said.

"We have lost a great patriot, a great person that just loved the Lord and spoke truth and justice unashamedly and, with courage," Grove said.

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