Billboards honoring Charlie Kirk pop up after street renaming fails
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. (Jeffrey Phelps/AP file)
A week after aldermen declined to rename a Hernando street for conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, residents have turned to billboards to honor him instead.
The two new electronic signs, placed on Interstate 55 near the Landers Center and I-55 near Delta Technical College, display tributes to Kirk, who was killed in what Hernando Alderman Ben Piper described as a “heinous and cowardly act.”
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Brandon LaGrone II
Brandon LaGrone Jr. is a Bluff City native who has earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from LSU’s Manship School. He’s written for publications including The (Baton Rouge) Advocate and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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