Amy Rose Lombardo, event coordinator for Turning Point USA's NAU chapter, says she won't be intimidated after a series of hostile incidents following the assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. Incidents included a threatening note depicting Kirk's killing and a recorded theft of items from a chapter table. NAU police charged the alleged table swiper with misdemeanor theft and disorderly conduct. Lombardo praised campus authorities, described opponents as "misguided," and urged supporters to remain engaged.
NAU TPUSA Leader Vows Not to Back Down After Harassment Following Charlie Kirk’s Killing
A graphic drawing given to Turning Point USA members at Northern Arizona University in September 2025 shows a person grabbing his neck and blood spilling out. The photo was taken on an unknown date.
PHOENIX — Amy Rose Lombardo, event coordinator for Turning Point USA's Northern Arizona University (NAU) chapter, says she will not step down after her group was targeted with harassment following the assassination of Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk.
Speaking to Fox News Digital at AmericaFest — Turning Point's annual conference — Lombardo described a series of hostile incidents directed at the chapter since Kirk was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
A student at Northern Arizona University clears a Turning Point USA table and walks off with a poster in September 2025.
"So, we have seen a few more dramatic protesting strategies," Lombardo said. "For example, really the first one that we ever got was a woman came by the table and dropped off a note that was a depiction of Charlie's murder and the comments on it (about) free speech, and only a good Nazi is a dead Nazi."
Lombardo said the note included an image showing blood coming from the neck of a person holding a microphone. In a separate episode, surveillance video captured a woman sweeping items off the chapter's tabling display and taking a foam board featuring Ronald Reagan.
"With the table swiper, to be honest with you, that person just came out of nowhere," Lombardo recalled. "She was walking back from a direction that normally we wouldn't see people, but she went and got food at some sort of area on the opposite side of where we were tabling, came around, and you'll hear in the video, my sister says, 'Hey, how's it going?' And she smiles at us and swipes the table and leaves."
Attendees pray during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025 Dec. 18, 2025, in Phoenix.
The NAU chapter reported the theft to the Northern Arizona University Police Department. Court records indicate the person who swept the table was charged with misdemeanor theft and disorderly conduct; Lombardo praised campus police and university administrators for their handling of the incidents.
Despite the hostility, Lombardo said she remains resolute about continuing her work with Turning Point.
Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, before his assassination.
"To me, Turning Point means truth and fighting for what you believe in," she said. "Because if we lose all hope, and we just give up on everything, then there's no way that we'd be able to have a future in America."
She described the aggression from opponents as motivating rather than discouraging and said she prays for those who direct hatred at the group.
"I hope they find their way out of the hatred that they let run their lives," Lombardo said. "Even though I disagree with those people, and they may disagree with me, I believe they are just extremely misguided. And they have just been lied to."
Lombardo urged others considering involvement with the group to step forward: "If you can't do it, if you won't do it, then who else will?"
The story noted similar confrontations at other campuses since Kirk's death. In one widely reported case, a teaching assistant at Illinois State University was filmed flipping a TPUSA table; he had been arrested days earlier in a separate incident and was later taken into custody by the FBI on allegations of making online threats against former President Donald Trump. Another individual accused of overturning conservative displays was charged after an alleged incident at the University of Iowa following an earlier episode involving a Young America's Foundation table.
Northern Arizona University declined to offer further comment.
