CNN Correspondent Gets Choked Up Over Minnesota Church Shooting That Left 2 Kids Dead: ‘It Just Wrecks You’

CNN correspondent Whitney Wild broke into tears on Thursday while reporting on the Minneapolis church shooting this week that left two children dead and more than a dozen others injured.

“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. You know, I have kids who go to Catholic school too and this one is – sorry,” replied Wild.

Brown concluded, “It’s something no child should have to experience and no parent should have to experience, Whitney. You drop your child off at school, the expectation you’re gonna pick them up at the end of the day safe.”

An 8-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were killed on Wednesday after 23-year-old gunman Robin Westman opened fire at a church in Minneapolis where students from the Annunciation Catholic School sat for their first week back in school.

Eighteen others were also injured during the attack – 15 of them children.

Watch above via CNN.