Charlie Kirk candlelight vigil at MTSU attracts over 200 mourners

Speaker tells Kirk vigil audience 'I wanted to be led by him'

Speaker also tells audience that he wept when he realized Kirk was dead

Another speaker tells the vigil audience that 'it's been a full week without Charlie Kirk'

Over 200 people grieved for Charlie Kirk at a candlelight vigil Sept. 17 at Middle Tennessee State University a week after the assassination of the Christian conservative advocate.

The audience of all ages gathered on outside steps to MTSU's Keathley University Center. Event organizers set up a large black-and-white photo of Kirk near a speaking lectern in a staging area.

The candlight vigil audience listened to speeches, prayers and Christian and patriotic songs led by Jackson Swafford, while he played an acoustic guitar. The event followed another candlelight