COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Some students at the University of Maryland paid tribute to the life of Charlie Kirk on Friday night.

Harshi Garg, the former president of UMD's chapter of Turning Point USA, was among the mourners. He described what it felt like when he heard that Kirk had died on Wednesday.

"It was like being winded over and over and over again," he explained.

The 2022 UMD graduate called Kirk's death "a wakeup call' and a greater statement on where he thinks we are as a country.

"Unfortunately, we are becoming such a nation where disagreement is seen as an attack on one's identity," Garg said, "and unfortunately, we cannot take ourselves out of the perspective for one reason or another."

Cameras were not allowed inside the vigil, but several students told us what it was like.

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