Report: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Staffers, Others Shot In Head At Public Event In Arizona

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Reportedly Shot
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat first elected in 2006, has been shot in the head during a public event at a Tucson Grocery Store, according to several news reports. According to NPR, at least nine others, including members of her staff, were injured as well. Giffords' condition is not yet known. From NPR's report: The Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and s...

Congresswoman Giffords Shot in Arizona
photo: Freedom to Marry via Flickr Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was holding a constituent service day in her Arizona district this morning, was shot in the head and wounded along with some of her staff. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, an eyewitness reported Saturday. Giffords, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting her first “Congress on Your Corner” event at the Safeway in ...

BREAKING: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Killed in Arizona
UPDATE: At least six others were killed in the shooting. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords died after being shot in the head at a public event on Saturday, Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat was outside a Tucson Grocery Store when a gunman ran up and began firing indiscriminately. The suspect was taken into police custody. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head and killed outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Pu...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Arizona
Politico reports (as of 1:36pm ET): Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot Saturday outside a Grocery Store in Tucson, Ariz., while holding a public event. NPR reported that she and six others were killed, but her office denied she had died. “That report is incorrect.” Giffords spokesman C.J. Karamargin said. Karamargin said he could not comment about whether other Giffords Staffers were struck in the shooting, but that he was not hit. Giffords, who was first elected in 2006, was hosti...

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in the head
(01-09) 04:00 PST Tucson -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday by a gunman who opened fire outside a Grocery Store during a meeting with voters, killing a Federal Judge and five others in an attempted Assassination that rattled the country and left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Giffords was the target of a gunman whom he described as mentally unstable and possibly act...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Others, Reported Wounded In Shooting
What is this? "U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday. "The Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a 'Congress on Your Corner' event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. "At least five other people, including members of her staff, were hurt. Gif...

Gabrielle Giffords Medical Update: Docs 'Encouraged'
Dr. G. Michael Lemole, Jr., left, speaks about the condition of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., as Dr. Peter Rhee looks on, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. The University Medical Center-Arizona neurosurgeon who operated on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Sunday he was "cautiously optimistic" about her status following surgery to manage a bullet wound to her brain resulting from a Mass Shooting in Tucson in which six people were killed. Providing the greatest amount of detail released yet about the con...

BREAKING NEWS !
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday. Giffords, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting her first "Congress on Your Corner” event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting. At least five other people, including members of her staff, were hurt, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. Giffords...

Arizona Male Who Shot Congresswoman Had Radical Links
Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition after a gunman shot her in the head, as well as more than a dozen others, including six dead. Authorities note that Jared Loughner had been reading up on White Power and other Hate Group movements prior to the attack. In spite of that, 22-year-old Jared Loughner had largely flown under the radar of Law Enforcement, chiefly because of the lack of direct activity, as noted by Fox News. The Group, American Renaissance, would have target

Jared Lee Loughner Identified As Gabrielle Giffords Shooter
© AP/Arizona Daily Star Jared Lee Loughner has been identified as the man suspected of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Loughner was described by eyewitnesses at the Arizona shooting as a young white man who looked like a "fringe character," in his mid-to-late 20s, clean-shaven with short hair and wearing dark clothing. Loughner was quickly arrested after he allegedly shot Giffords and some 12 others at a public event at a Safeway Grocery Store in Tucscon. He reporte...

Daniel Hernandez, 20-Year-Old Intern, Hailed For Helping Gabrielle Giffords After Shooting
A 20-year-old intern is being hailed as a hero for his actions following Saturday's brutal shooting in Arizona. Daniel Hernandez had been an intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for just five days when a gunman opened fire in Tucson, killing six and putting the Arizona congresswoman in critical condition, AZCentral reports. According to AZCentral, the University of Arizona junior says he ran towards the gunshots as soon as he heard them. "I don't even know if the gunfire had stopped," he says. H...

Leftist Congresswoman Assassinated In Tucson
NPR: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. At least three other people, including members of her st...

Doctors Talking Positively about Rep. Giffords Chances of Survival Video Report 1/9/11
Here is a video report on the shooting yesterday in Tucson, Arizona of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 17 other people. It gives a recap of what happened, and says doctors are “talking positively” about Giffords’ “chances of survival” following emergency surgery. My prayers go out for her and the others wounded in this attack, and for the families of those who were killed. I know many of you are doing the same. ...

Giffords' Intern Recounts Efforts to Keep Her Alive in Moments After the Shooting
In the moments after she was shot in the head while meeting constituents outside a Supermarket on Saturday, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was still "alert and conscious" and grabbed a young intern's hand when he asked her if she could hear him. That did not last long. Giffords now is in University Medical Center in Tucson, heavily sedated after two hours of surgery and has not been conscious since the shooting. Daniel Hernandez, 20, a junior at the University of Arizona, had been working for Giffords...

Intern Credited With Saving Rep. Giffords' Life
Katie Couric discusses the current state of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. as well as her chance of survival with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Peter DeNoble. Rep. Giffords Heavily Sedated after Attack (CBS) TUCSON - An intern that had worked for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for five days, and ran into the gunfire and applied pressure to her wound likely saved her life, reports The Arizona Republic. Daniel Hernandez checked pulses, and saw that one man was already dead. Then he saw Giffords who was lying...

Gabrielle Giffords Shooting - Updates
I watched the medical team Press Conference at noon. I have to say, I remain so impressed with the professionalism and determination of the medical trauma teams at the University Medical Center in Tucson, and elsewhere. It is comforting to know that even in a mid-sized city such as Tucson, such trauma teams are available. Of course, the reason such teams exist and are so competent at dealing with gunshot wounds is the legacy of gang and other violence in cities. Robert Muller, FBI Director, als...

Doctors 'Cautiously Optimistic' About Gabrielle Giffords' Condition
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in Tucson on Saturday during a Shooting Spree in which she was the apparent target, is able to understand and "follow simple commands" after two hours of Brain Surgery and doctors say they are "cautiously optimistic" about her condition. Dr. Michael Lemole, chief of Neurosurgery at University Medical Center, said the gunman's bullet had entered Giffords' brain on the left side, from back to front. While any wound of that type means her co...

Christina Greenes Mother Remembers Her Daughter
Dot on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot — Thread II. . . myrtle on DHS Memo Linking Loughner to Racist Group, American Renaissance, Leaked. American Renaissance Denies. 9-11 Infidel on DHS Memo Linking Loughner to Racist Group, American Renaissance, Leaked. American Renaissance Denies. Larry7 (prev. just Larry) on Communist Party USA Jumps on The Blame Palin/GOP/Tea Party Bandwagon Just heartwrenching. (FNC) — The mother of a 9-year-old girl gunned down in Saturday’s shoot...

Congresswoman, 12+ others shot in Arizona
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and over a dozen others were shot this morning in Tucson, Arizona, at an outdoor townhall-type meeting the congresswoman was holding. Initially, news reports said that Giffords was killed (shot point-blank to the head), but they now report that she is alive, in "very critical condition", and still in surgery. Several of the Victims have died so far, including a congressional Staffer. UPDATE: Reports from Law Enforcement say that a Federal Judge is among t...

A flame that can't be extingushed and a marriage that should not be saved
Posted by Paul at 9:35 PM When NPR sacked top news executive Ellen Weiss earlier this week, Juan Williams (whom Weiss had sacked) called her the representative of the "very ingrown, incestuous culture" at NPR. He also said her departure is "good news for NPR and people who care about the news." Unfortunately, "NPR" and "people who care about the news" as other than a vehicle for advancing a political agenda may be, for the most part, non-overlapping subsets. In any case, according to the Washin...

Gabrielle Giffords Remains Sedated Following Arizona Shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remained heavily sedated and in critical condition Sunday as investigators sought to understand what motivated a gunman to carry out an Assassination attempt on the Democratic lawmaker in a rampage that killed six people. University Medical Center spokeswoman Darci Slaten told The Associated Press that Giffords underwent a two-hour surgery Saturday and has not been conscious since the shooting. She said more information will be released at a news c...

Details of suspect in US rampage slowly emerge
An initial portrait of the man accused of shooting Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head in an attack that also killed six people outside a Tucson Grocery Store slowly began to emerge, as authorities described a young man with a troubled past and neighbors recalled a 22-year-old who often kept to himself. One former classmate said the accused gunman, Jared Loughner, often did his own thing. Another described him as a Student who disrupted class with occasional outbursts. ...

Palin Spokesman Responds to Attacks and Allegations
The original Take Back The 20 graphic. (USA Today) - Rebecca Mansour, an aide to ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, decried the “politicization” of the Arizona shooting rampage that has left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., fighting for her life. “This is a terrible politicization of a tragedy,” she told USA TODAY’s Fredreka Schouten. “We don’t know (the shooter’s) motive. It doesn’t seem like he was motivated by a political ideology...

Palin staffer: 'Nothing irresponsible about our graphic'
An aide to Sarah Palin is defending the former Alaska Governor's Controversial campaign target map, saying the circles over certain districts were never meant to be gun sights. However, Palin herself described the symbol as a "bullseye." Palin's "Take Back the 20" campaign came under renewed fire after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was severely injured by a gunman on Saturday. The campaign featured a map with crosshairs over Giffords' district, along with the districts of 19 other Democratic...

Editor's Note: On NPR's Giffords Coverage
Dick Meyer is executive editor of NPR News. In the course of reporting on the tragic events in Tucson on Saturday, NPR broadcast erroneous information in our 2:01 p.m. Eastern newscast, saying that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona had been shot and killed. That information briefly appeared on NPR.org and was contained in an e-mail news alert sent to subscribers of that service. Thankfully, Rep. Giffords is alive today, though sadly other Victims of the shootings are not. This was a serious and...