President Trump and his supporters were to pay tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a memorial service in Arizona.

Charlie Kirk’s funeral will punctuate a watershed moment for the grassroots conservative movement he founded as a teenager and was working to advance earlier this month when a gunman shot and killed him.

President Donald Trump and his supporters will pay tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose assassination has intensified political tensions in the U.S. The memorial service Sunday in Arizona is expected to draw a large crowd to hear from Trump,

The conservative activist was shot and killed while speaking to students at a university in Utah on 10 September.

President Trump hugged Kirk's heartbroken wife before delivering a lengthy speech in which he called Kirk a "great American hero." As CBS News New York's Lisa Rozner reports, the five-plus-hour service drew supporters from across the country.

President Trump and prominent members of his “Make America Great Again” movement will pay tribute Sunday to conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

US President Donald Trump spoke at a memorial service for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was shot dead earlier this month

Trump and his supporters will pay tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose assassination has intensified political tensions in the U.S.