(WTVO) — President Donald Trump says Charlie Kirk asked him to "save Chicago."

“He was an All-American in everything he did, and one of the last things he said to me was, ‘Please sir, save Chicago,'" the president said Sunday during his speech at Kirk's memorial service in Glendale, Ariz. "We’re going to do that. We’re going to save Chicago from horrible crime."

Kirk was born in Arlington Heights, attended Wheeling High School and started "Turning Point USA" from a garage in Lemont.

Trump said Kirk was a martyr for American freedom.

“Because while Charlie has been reunited with his creator in heaven, his voice on Earth will echo through the generations, and his name will live forever in the eternal chronicle of American’s greatest patriots,” Trump said.

Kirk, 31, was fatally shot Sept

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