A newly unveiled statue of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was vandalized just days after it was unveiled marking the first anniversary of his assassination
The statue— which was installed on Thursday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the conservative free-speech advocate's Sept. 10, 2025, assassination —was covered in red spray paint, AZFamily reported.
A nearby TPUSA billboard also was defaced, with the vandals crossing out the word "Jesus" and writing "Satan" overtop.
"The vandals doing this in the middle of the night only underscores something we’ve sadly come to understand in a whole new way," TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told The Gateway Pundit. "Evil never sleeps. But God is in control, and we’ll pray that whoever did this is held accountable and comes to know Him."
Kirk's widow, current TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk, struck a defiant note, saying that "Every attempt to tear down what Charlie built makes us root deeper and work even harder."
Tyler Bowyer, chief operating officer for Turning Point Action, called the vandalism a "wake up call" for conservatives who still view Arizona as a safe-red state.
"If Arizona becomes California like this, we lose America," Bowyer wrote.
Arizona Rep. Abraham Hamadeh, a Republican, condemned the defacement as "abhorrent" while slamming the leftist vandals as "intolerant and militant" in an X post.
No suspects had yet been identified as of Sunday afternoon.
The bronze statue by artist Quintin McCann features several symbols that were meaningful to Kirk in his faith-based activism— including a cross, wedding band, TPUSA hat and now-iconic T-shirt bearing the word "FREEDOM."
The religious images were defaced, along with an X over Kirk's face and paint on his neck representing the spot where a bullet entered last year as he was speaking at a college campus in Utah.
The vandalism follows several grotesque reactions from social-media users who made posts celebrating Kirk's death on its anniversary.
Bowyer said the current location was only temporary in a post Thursday noting its unveiling.
"We placed the bronze statue so that others can enjoy it when visiting before it finds its final spot," he wrote.
Bowyer was one of several conservatives who was the victim of a lawfare operation led by the state's Democrat attorney general, Kris Mayes, for attempting to appoint a slate of alternate electors during the 2020 election. The case was unceremoniously dismissed in August by a Maricopa County judge.
Mayes is running for reelection in November against Arizona state Sen. Warren Petersen. She defeated Hamadeh in 2022 by a margin of 280 votes after a period of protracted vote counting and legal challenges.
Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs is also seeking reelection against former U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs.
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