An 8-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were killed when 23-year-old Robin Westman opened fire at a Minneapolis church where Annunciation Catholic School students were present during their first week back. Eighteen others were injured, including 15 children. A memorial grew outside the church with classmates leaving messages calling the victims angels. CNN correspondent Whitney Wild became emotional on air describing the community's grief and the difficulty of imagining children writing to deceased classmates. Anchor Pamela Brown urged Wild to take time and noted that no parent or child should endure such violence.
This community is just reeling from the reality that two of their classmates, two students, two angels as was described by the principal, will no longer be with them, said Wild. There's a memorial that's growing outside the church, Pamela, and you know, you've got kids, I've got kids too, and Wild then began to choke up. Sorry, when you go over to that memorial, it is just it just wrecks you, Pam, she continued.
You see their classmates writing that they're gonna miss them, that they're angels, and it's just an unfathomable moment that a child would have to think about what they would write to their dead classmate. It is impossible to wrap your mind around in this moment. As Wild struggled to continue with the report, CNN anchor Pamela Brown said, Take some time, Whitney. It's incredibly hard. Sorry.
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