Charlie Kirk’s widow faces accused killer Tyler Robinson in court for the first time | CNN

The widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk faced her husband’s accused killer, Tyler Robinson, in court for the first time Monday as Utah prosecutors began presenting some of their evidence in hopes of convincing a judge to allow the case to proceed to trial. Erika Kirk, who sat beside her late husband’s parents in the courtroom, appeared visibly emotional at times as witnesses described the day Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while addressing a crowd of thousands at a Utah university last September. Donald Trump Jr., a close friend of Charlie Kirk’s, was also seen in the court Monday with his wife, Bettina Trump. Charlie Kirk’s family temporarily left the courtroom during sensitive moments, including when a former Utah Valley University police officer described hearing the fatal gunshot, and when the court viewed graphic footage of the shooting – though those videos were not publicly displayed. “A lot of people were screaming, standing up and starting to run in all different directions,” Officer Christopher Bagley, one of two witnesses prosecutors called to testify Monday, said. The hearing comes about ten months after Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative firebra