{"id":209992,"date":"2026-04-26T02:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209992\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:49:10","slug":"rattled-erika-kirk-rushed-out-of-white-house-correspondents-dinner-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209992\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattled Erika Kirk rushed out of White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Kirk\u2019s widow Erika Kirk was abruptly rushed out, visibly shaken and in tears, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/25\/us-news\/shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-evacuated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner<\/a>, an eyewitness told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to go home. I just want to go home,\u201d she reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>Erika Kirk getting rushed out of the Washington Hilton after the shooting. jamescrockerrr\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>Erika Kirk was seen with Fox News\u2019 Lawrence Jones ahead of the event. Fox News<\/p>\n<p>Security rapidly escort Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. out during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Saturday, April 25, 2026. AP<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/25\/us-news\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-live-updates-news-trump-speech\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow The Post\u2019s live updates on the shooting at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same eyewitness described Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being carried out by members of his security detail, one on each side supporting his weight. <\/p>\n<p>His feet dragged along the floor, and he appeared disoriented \u2014 \u201cdelirious,\u201d in the witness\u2019s words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk\u2019s widow Erika Kirk was abruptly rushed out, visibly shaken and in tears, from the White House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3653,32391,9,11,10,87,21559,58,83124],"class_list":{"0":"post-209992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-charlie-kirk","9":"tag-erika-kirk","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-white-house-correspondents-dinner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}