UPDATE: The event has been moved again, to East Cobb Park, at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The organizers of the East Cobb vigil for Charlie Kirk on Thursday said they have relocated the event to the Woodlawn Square Shopping Center on Johnson Ferry Road.
The vigil is set for the same time—7 p.m.—and will take place near the Chick-Fil-A (1201 Johnson Ferry Road).
The organizers were forced to find a new venue after Cobb County officials said Tuesday they could not have it at the East Cobb Government Services Center on Lower Roswell Road, which had been announced as the location.
The facility houses Cobb Police Precinct 4 and Cobb Fire Station 21.
County officials said they weren’t informed there was a group meeting there, and said that such gatherings are not allowed “due to the potential disruption of public safety operations. Anyone who attempts to attend will not be permitted to gather there.”
Candles will be provided and the vigil along the lines of other vigils across the country for Kirk, a conservative activist who was shot to death last week at a college event in Utah.
He was the founder of Turning Point USA, an advocacy group that organized youth around a message of conservative populism.
Kirk was a strong ally of Trump who hosted his own podcast and spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024.
A public memorial service is scheduled for Sunday at a football stadium near Phoenix, where Kirk lived.
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