UTSA STUDENT FORCED TO APOLOGIZE FOR GLEEFUL MOCKERY OF CHARLIE KIRK’S ASSASSINATION AFTER NATIONWIDE BACKLASH
A University of Texas at San Antonio student who turned the murder of Charlie Kirk into a campus performance has issued a video apology, but only after intense public pressure made the cost of her words impossible to ignore. Isa Casahuga, identified online as a St. Agnes Academy graduate and UTSA student, stood at a “Pick Up the Mic” event and recited a parody of “The Night Before Christmas.”
She called the assassination the “Kirkiversary” and solemnly remembered “a shot to the neck.” She then told host Christian Collins he was brave to appear without neck protection or a neck brace. The video spread rapidly, drawing condemnation and prompting the university to confirm a student conduct review. The UT System stated it would not tolerate the incitement of violence.
On November 1, 2026, Casahuga released a prepared video statement citing “much prayer and reflection.” She addressed Erika Kirk and the family directly: “My words were deeply insensitive, to say the least, particularly considering the unfathomable loss your family has experienced.”
She told Christian Collins that her remarks at his rally were “beyond inappropriate and hurtful.” She added that “there’s nothing acceptable or funny about political violence and much less the loss of a person’s life” and claimed she wants to do better as a Christian, a person, and an American while taking “full accountability.”
Eric Daugherty shared the apology on X and noted the obvious: these people are emboldened, and it took nationwide outrage to produce a response days later. He urged continued public shaming, arguing that celebrating political assassination does not belong in civil society.
Critics online dismissed the apology as damage control from someone reading a script after consequences arrived, not genuine remorse. The original performance showed glee. The apology arrived only after identification, viral spread, university scrutiny, and widespread rejection of the joke.
Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck and killed while speaking in public in September 2025. Treating that murder as clever verse or a personal taunt about “neck protection” crosses a basic line. Public accountability forced the statement. That is the point.
Glorifying political violence should carry a cost every time it is performed in the open. Silence or defiance would have been worse. A late apology under pressure does not erase the choice, but it confirms that basic standards still matter when people refuse to look away.