JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: Families choose to remember how loved ones lived, not how they died By Megan McNeil | January 8, 2021 at 5:12 PM MST - Updated January 8 at 6:46 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A bookcase filled with newspapers, magazines and books that capture historic moments in the world sits in the home of B.J. Offutt.
They are collections from Phyllis Schneck, his late mother.
“I honestly think God said, ‘Phyllis, let’s take a ride,” Offutt said “My sister made the comment, I can just picture it, one minute she’s standing there and the next minute she’s up in heaven with Dad.”
TUCSON (KVOA) - President-elect Joe Biden shared his sentiments about one of Tucson s darkest days on Friday in correspondence to the 10-year anniversary of the mass shooting.
On Jan. 8, 2011, former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was among the 13 wounded during a mass shooting at the congresswoman’s “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Casas Adobes Safeway. That day also claimed the lives of six people – Christina-Taylor Green, Dorothy “Dot” Morris, John Roll, Phyllis Schneck, Dorwan Stoddard and Gabriel “Gabe” Zimmerman.
After the tragic day, then President Barack Obama visited the Old Pueblo to lead a memorial service at the University of Arizona on Jan. 12, 2011.
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Today marks 10th anniversary of Tucson mass shooting
It has now been 10 years since the January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson.
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TUCSON, AZ â Today marks 10 years since the mass shooting in Tucson that claimed the lives of six people.
The shooting also left 13 people wounded, including then-U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
Giffords was the target at the meet-and-greet event with constituents outside a supermarket and was gravely wounded after being shot in the head.
Today, my heart and mind are with those we lost in the Tucson shooting:
Christina-Taylor Green
Dorothy Morris
Their memories are a blessing that keeps me going, even when times are tough. pic.twitter.com/57KO2422Gr Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) January 8, 2021
Capitol uprising reminds Gabby Giffords of the day she was shot, six were killed 10 years ago
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had just been sworn in to her third term representing Arizona’s 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
On Jan. 8, 2011, she was in Pima County, Ariz., near Tucson, meeting with constituents during a “Congress on Your Corner” event outside a Safeway grocery store.
On that day, 10 years ago, a man with a gun ran up to her and others and began shooting.
Giffords, 40, was shot in the head at close range. Six people – including a federal judge, a child and Giffords’ director of community outreach – were killed.