Charlie Kirk's body will be flown on Air Force Two — the vice president's plane — from Utah to Arizona, where he lived with his family, according to officials familiar with the matter.

Vice President JD Vance flew to Salt Lake City to retrieve Kirk's body on Thursday, a day after the 31-year-old conservative activist was shot and killed at an event at a Utah university, the officials said. The vice presidential aircraft will transport Kirk's body to Phoenix, according to the officials.

Vance and second lady Usha Vance will travel with Kirk's family and some of his friends to Arizona. Kirk is survived by his wife, Erika, and two young children.

"We will continue to facilitate movements to get him home today and with his family," Beau Mason, commissioner of the Utah Department of

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