MELBOURNE. Fla. – The Melbourne mayor late Monday said he will seek to rename a roadway to honor Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was assassinated last week in Utah.
In a Facebook post, Mayor Paul Alfrey said he will bring an agenda item at the next city council meeting to rename the stretch of Cypress Avenue, from Eau Gallie Boulevard to Orange Street, to Charlie Kirk Lane.
In the post, Alfrey said the location was chosen because a nearby business owner posted a disparaging remark about Kirk online.
Alfrey included a picture of the business owner’s comment in his Facebook.
[VIDEO BELOW: Vigil held for Charlie Kirk in Ormond Beach]
“Kirk will not be forgotten in Melbourne!” Alfrey said in the post.
Tuesday, Kaili Lamb told Brevard County Community Correspondent James Sparvero she was sorry for what she wrote.
Lamb said she immediately took the post down from Facebook, but not before someone took a screenshot.
" I, certainly, am not celebrating somebody’s death at all," the owner of the Lamb & Co seafood market said. “I can’t imagine what his wife is going through.”
Mayor Alfrey told reporters he accepted Lamb’s apology and went into the store to forgive her.
The two shook hands and started a conversation.
“I wanted to come here and just have a talk with you and just let you that I’m gonna support your business and everything that I can do,” Alfrey told Lamb.
“Thank you,” Lamb replied. “I appreciate it.”
Lamb told Sparvero it’s true what she wrote, but said she did so impulsively after she watched one of Charlie Kirk’s videos she disagreed with.
Alfrey responded to Kirk’s critics, who question naming a street after someone who was not a politician or dignitary.
“Charlie Kirk is kind of ahead of his time,” Alfrey said. “He did create one of the largest youth movements and got them engaged in politics and discussion and dialogue.”
Renaming the street after Kirk is up for discussion at Melbourne’s city council meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 24.
Lamb told the mayor she has no problem with his proposal.
Meantime, a Lake County commissioner is also pushing for a road to be renamed after Kirk.
Anthony Sabatini announced on social media that he added an item to the county’s next commission meeting to discuss the change.
The next Lake County Commission meeting is scheduled for Sept. 23.