Doctors were optimistic about Giffords surviving as she was responding to commands from doctors. Richard Carmona, the former surgeon general who lives in Tucson. Karamargin said besides the aide Zimmerman, who was killed, two other Giffords staffers were shot but expected to survive.
Zimmerman was a former social worker who served as Giffords' director of community outreach. Giffords had worked with the judge in the past to line up funding to build a new courthouse in Yuma, and Obama hailed him for his nearly 40 years of service. Greg Segalini, an uncle of Christina, the 9-year-old victim, told the Arizona Republic that a neighbor was going to the event and invited her along because she had just been elected to the student council and was interested in government.
Christina, who was born on Sept. She had just received her first Holy Communion at St. In the evening, more than people attended a candlelight vigil outside Giffords' headquarters, where authorities investigated a suspicious package that turned out to be non-explosive. The suspect Loughner was described by a former classmate as a pot-smoking loner, and the Army said he tried to enlist in December but was rejected for reasons not disclosed.
Federal law enforcement officials were poring over versions of a MySpace page that included a mysterious "Goodbye friends" message published hours before the shooting and exhorted his friends to "Please don't be mad at me.
In one of several Youtube videos, which featured text against a dark background, Loughner described inventing a new U. If I have my civil rights, then this message wouldn't have happen sic. In Loughner's middle-class neighborhood - about a five-minute drive from the scene - sheriff's deputies had much of the street blocked off.
The neighborhood sits just off a bustling Tucson street and is lined with desert landscaping and palm trees. Neighbors said Loughner lived with his parents and kept to himself. He was often seen walking his dog, almost always wearing a hooded sweat shirt and listening to his iPod. Loughner's MySpace profile indicates he attended and graduated from school in Tucson and had taken college classes. He did not say if he was employed. We are freaked out," year-old David Cleveland, who lives a few doors down from Loughner's house, told The Associated Press.
Cleveland said he was taking his wife and children, ages 5 and 7, to her parent's home when they heard about the shooting. High school classmate Grant Wiens, 22, said Loughner seemed to be "floating through life" and "doing his own thing.
He smoked pot, I don't know how regularly. And he wasn't too keen on religion, from what I could tell," Wiens said. Lynda Sorenson said she took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's Northwest campus and told the Arizona Daily Star he was "obviously very disturbed.
In October , Loughner was cited in Pima County for possession of drug paraphernalia, which was dismissed after he completed a diversion program, according to online records.
Giffords was first elected to Congress amid a wave of Democratic victories in the election, and has been mentioned as a possible Senate candidate in and a gubernatorial prospect in She is married to astronaut Mark E. Rayle said that a doctor in such a situation would try to triage as best as possible, but that there's not a lot that can be done. He said at least five people were given CPR and that Giffords was propped up. A staffer was attending to her.
She was very bloody and I could see that she was conscious. She was moving her fingers and hands and had moved her arms so I was hopeful that those were not fatal wounds for her. The hospital was treating 10 shooting victims, Rhee said. Gifford and four others were in critical condition. Initial reports said the year-old Democrat was killed, but officials later said she was critically wounded by a gunman outside a Safeway store shortly after 10 a. President Barack Obama called the attack "an unspeakable tragedy" and said that such "a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society.
Giffords had been greeting constituents at her first "Congress on Your Corner" event this year. It was publicized on her website on Friday as a chance for people in Arizona's 8th congressional district to meet with her "one-on-one and discuss with her any issue, concern or problem involving the federal government. Steven Rayle told CBC News how he had gone with a friend to meet Giffords at the Safeway store and that she was talking to a couple behind a table just before the shooting began.
A MySpace page of Loughner included a "Goodbye friends" message published hours before the shooting and said, "Please don't be mad at me.
In addition to the four killed, seven were injured. Adam Kinzinger R-Ill. Video: U. Massie, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate who entered Congress in , represents a largely Republican congressional district and has been a staunch opponent of gun-control initiatives.
In April, he introduced a bill that would allow people ages 18 to 20 to buy a handgun, repealing federal law. They can also form business contracts, get married, and serve in the military. As adults, these Americans should not be deprived of basic constitutional rights. Other Republicans, such as Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who recently faced a firestorm over Islamophobic remarks against Rep.
Ilhan Omar D-Minn. Katherine M. Clark D-Mass.
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