Shouts of “We love you, Charlie” and chants of “USA” rang out Sunday night as hundreds of folks came together to light candles, pray and remember the life of Charlie Kirk.

The candlelight vigil, held at the Porter County Courthouse on a warm, late summer night, was the idea of Nate Uldricks, chairman of the Porter County Republican Party. The vigil drew at least 400 people to the south side of the courthouse square.

On Wednesday, Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative firebrand and close ally of President Donald Trump, who grew up in the Chicago suburbs , was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in what the state’s governor called a political assassination. A bipartisan outcry against political violence followed.

Kirk was the co-founder of Turning Point USA, which has a network of mo

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