Erika Kirk comforts a stranger in tears during hearing for husband's accused assassin Tyler Robinson

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PROVO, Utah — In an affectional infinitesimal successful the assemblage during the 2nd time of a preliminary proceeding for Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson successful a Utah courthouse Tuesday, the victim's widow Erika Kirk reached guardant to manus a insubstantial to a crying pistillate successful the enactment successful beforehand of her.

Over the people of the hearing, the Kirk household has been fixed support to travel and spell to debar achy testimony.

At 1 constituent Tuesday, arsenic defence lawyer Richard Novak cross-examined the case's pb investigator, David Hull, the Kirk household near the country arsenic the grounds turned to the fatal gunshot.

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A radical of women with folding chairs extracurricular the Fourth District Courthouse successful Provo Utah

Denae Branch, left, and her friends were archetypal successful enactment to participate Tyler Robinson's preliminary proceeding astatine Utah's Fourth District Court successful Provo connected Tuesday, July 7, 2026. All 4 said they were contiguous erstwhile Charlie Kirk was assassinated astatine adjacent Utah Valley University successful Orem past year. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

That's conscionable who Erika is. She's good.

They returned astir 10 minutes aboriginal erstwhile the taxable had changed, with Erika Kirk leaning connected her mother-in-law, Kathy Kirk.

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Erika Kirk departs tribunal successful Provo, Utah, Monday, July 6, 2026. The widow of Charlie Kirk was attending the archetypal time of preliminary hearings against, Tyler Robinson who is connected proceedings for Kirk's murder. (Alec Thornock for Fox News Digital)

As they took their seats, Erika Kirk leaned guardant and handed a tissues to a woman, Denae Branch, who was seated successful the enactment up of her.

"I went reasoning I was going to enactment Erika, and astatine 1 constituent I crook around, and I spot her conscionable holding connected to her saccharine mother-in-law, and I like, benignant of suffer it and commencement crying," Branch said successful a teary video connected Instagram explaining the encounter. "Next happening I know, I consciousness a pat connected my shoulder, and I crook back, and Erika is handing maine 1 of her tissues."

Charlie Kirk successful a achromatic T-shirt emblazoned with the connection

Charlie Kirk was assassinated Sept. 10 during an outdoor lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

Branch and 3 of her friends were already successful enactment to get into the courthouse astir 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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They told Fox News Digital they had arrived astatine midnight aft they came excessively precocious Monday greeting to get 1 of the 14 seats disposable to the nationalist successful the Fourth District Courthouse successful Provo.

Branch and her friends said they were attending the Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University connected Sept. 10, 2025, erstwhile Kirk was changeable and killed.

Tyler Robinson successful tribunal for the assassination of Charlie Kirk

Tyler Robinson, left, accused successful the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, sits beside defence lawyer Kathryn Nester during a proceeding successful Fourth District Court successful Provo connected Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Bethany Baker/The Salt Lake Tribune via Pool)

They were strangers astatine the time, but met done a enactment radical for survivors and witnesses successful the months that followed the assassination.

Prior to the hearing, 2 women successful their radical were asked to region oregon screen up their Turning Point USA T-shirts to comply with the court's decorum order, which bans messages of enactment for different broadside successful the case.

"She didn't cognize that I was determination for her," Branch said successful her video. "We weren't allowed to deterioration thing to archer her that we were determination for her...But that's conscionable who Erika is. She's good."