Hopkins native Aaron Brown, who died Sunday at the age of 76, will best be remembered as CNN’s breaking-news anchor in the early 2000s. I also knew him as my 9/11 soulmate. On that fateful day in 2001,

Aaron Brown, a veteran television news anchor, former Minneapolis radio host and a key media figure during the reporting of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, has died.

Aaron Brown, the renowned CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the September 11 attacks and his role in shaping the network’s evening news format, died Sunday at the age of 76, his family said.