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PHOENIX (AP) As a pro-Trump mob laid siege to the U.S. Capitol this week, former Rep. Gabby Giffords could only wait nervously for news about her husband, Mark Kelly, who was barely a month into his job as a senator from Arizona.
A decade earlier it was Kelly enduring the excruciating wait for news about Giffords, who was shot in the head in an attempted assassination that, like Wednesday’s siege, shocked the nation and prompted a reckoning about the state of politics and discourse in the United States.
For some who survived the attack 10 years ago Friday, the violence inside the U.S. Capitol this week was a painful reminder of that day, when a gunman with paranoid schizophrenia killed six and injured 12, in addition to Giffords, who was meeting with constituents in a grocery store parking lot in Tucson.
Victims in Gabrielle Giffords attack see parallel to Capitol riot Share Updated: 12:24 PM PST Jan 8, 2021 By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press
Victims in Gabrielle Giffords attack see parallel to Capitol riot Share Updated: 12:24 PM PST Jan 8, 2021
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Show Transcript I ve known the darkest of days, days of pain and uncharted recovery. But confronted by despair, I ve someone s hope. Confronted by paralysis and aphasia, I responded with grit and determination. I put 1 ft in front of the other. I ve found one word and then I found another. My recovery is a daily fight, but fighting makes me stronger. Words once came easily today. I struggled to speak, but I have not lost my voice. American needs all of us to speak out even when you have to fight to find the words. We are at a crossroads. We can let the shoot and continue or we can act. We can protect our families. Our future. We can vote. We can be on the right side of history.
Dedication held for memorial to victims of Tucson shooting
By Associated Press and Brent Corrado
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Friday marks 10th anniversary of Tucson shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. - A dedication ceremony was held on Jan. 8 for a memorial to victims of the 2011
Due to the
coronavirus pandemic, the ceremony on the shooting s 10-year anniversary was not open to the public but several local television stations were expected to broadcast the ceremony and it was livestreamed on Pima County s Facebook page.
The memorial next to the Historic County Courthouse in downtown Tucson was created for the victims, survivors and emergency personnel who responded to the shooting outside a Safeway store where Giffords was holding a meet-and-greet event.
Jan. 8, 2021, is the 10th anniversary of the Tucson shooting, which killed six and wounded 13 people who were gathered for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ 21st Congress on Your Corner. Jan. 8, 2011, was a beautiful, crisp Tucson morning. The attendees were lined up waiting to have a few private moments with their Representative The Congress on Your Corner started promptly at 10 a.m. At 10:10 am the shooting started. In 19.6 seconds, the shooter discharged 33 bullets from his handgun. I saw Gabby shot in the head and go down. That memory is embedded in my mind. After Gabby, I was shot twice. I also will never forget seeing my deputy, Gabe Zimmerman, fall at my feet. As I looked at his face, I knew he was dead. On the other side of me, Judge John Roll was being given CPR by a nurse who was shopping that morning. He did not survive. Four others died that day: Christina-Taylor Green, Dorwan Stoddard, Dorothy Morris and Phyliss Schneck.