Charlie Kirk's immediate family, including his wife Erika and their two young children, were present at the event courtyard when he was shot. They were quickly evacuated by security personnel after the shooting occurred. However, there is some unclear information whether they were physically right next to him at the very moment of the shooting, but they were definitely at the event venue where the attack took place. Kirk was speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem when he was fatally shot by a sniper from a nearby rooftop.