Amy Klobuchar Recounts Church Shooting Victim’s Harrowing Experience on CNN: Watched ‘Some of Her Best Friends Be Shot’

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) recounted the harrowing experience of a victim in the Minneapolis school shooting Wednesday on CNN.

Appearing on CNN’s Inside Politics, Klobuchar relayed the account of the attack at the Annunciation Catholic School from a student named Cora — who is the daughter of former Klobuchar staffer Kate Nilan.

“The kids were in the Mass, and they were packed in there,” Klobuchar said. “And so this girl — seventh, eighth grade — literally watched her friends, some of her best friends, be shot. One in the neck, one in the stomach. And when they were running out, when they finally got out, she was the one, this child, who had to tell one of her friend’s dad’s that the friend had been shot. And in — of course — the chaos that would ensue in any place when there’s a mass shooting like this.”

CNN’s Dana Bash was gutted by the story.

“To hear you describe Cora — an eighth grader, seventh or eighth grader — having to tell the parent of her friend that they were shot…it’s …anybody with kids, anybody with a beating heart, it’s just beyond,” Bash said.

Klobuchar agreed.

“Anyone can imagine on the first day of school, I remember this, dropping your child off to a bus, or bringing them to the school thinking they’re going to be safe,” she said. “It’s just the most horrific thing any parent — and I know you are a parent as well, Dana — any parent can imagine.”

Watch above, via CNN.