GLENDALE — Eleven days after his assassination, 90,000 mourners traveled to Glendale yesterday for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service at State Farm Stadium. The conservative activist and commentator was killed by a sniper Sept. 10 while speaking at a college campus in Orem, Utah. He was 31.
The mourners hailed from every stretch of the nation . Some came from Maricopa, where Kirk’s Turning Point USA was energizing rural voters just a day before the shooting.
A handful of Maricopa residents left from the city’s Province neighborhood at 6 a.m. bound for the service, a celebration of life that fused religious worship with conservative politics. Christian music poured through Westgate and Desert Diamond Arena, the designated overflow area after State Farm Stadium’s 73,000