The murder of conservative commentator and radio talk show host Charlie Kirk hit home in Ventura County.
Kirk was a rising star in the Republican Party and had the president's ear. But his career as a radio talk show host was also taking off.
He hosted a midday show for the Camarillo-based Salem Media Group, which owns conservative talk and religious radio stations in major markets like New York and Los Angeles. The Charlie Kirk show was syndicated nationally.
Salem issued a statement calling the murder a "cowardly and vile act of violence, carried out to silence one of America’s boldest Christian conservative voices."
Meanwhile, out of respect for Kirk and his family, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley canceled a Wednesday night appearance by another conservative radio talk show host, Ben Shapiro.
Reagan Library officials called the attack an act driven by hatred, one that’s not just an attack on a person, but on our civic culture.
