Thumbnail sketches of victims in Tucson shooting

Suspect in Arizona shootings appears in court
By David Schwartz PHOENIX, Arizona | Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:42pm EST PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A troubled 22-year-old College Dropout made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remained in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head. His hands manacled together, Jared Lee Loughner said understood the charges against him that stem from a Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday that left s...

Suspect in Arizona shootings appears in court
By David Schwartz PHOENIX, Arizona | Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:42pm EST PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A troubled 22-year-old College Dropout made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remained in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head. His hands manacled together, Jared Lee Loughner said understood the charges against him that stem from a Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday that left s...

Thumbnail sketches of victims in Tucson shooting
(01-09) 18:03 PST (AP) -- John Roll, 63: Named Arizona's chief federal judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court's strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases. Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He previously served as a state trial judge and as a judge on the midlevel Arizona Court of appeals, and as a county and state pros...

Thumbnail sketches of victims in Tucson shooting
Named Arizona's chief Federal Judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court's strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases. Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He previously served as a state trial judge and as a judge on the midlevel Arizona Court of appeals, and as a county and state prosecutor. Bishop Gerald Kicanas of the Roman ...

2 Tucson Shooting Victims Have Strong Local Ties
RUTHERFORD, N.J. (CBS 2) — Two of the Victims of the massacre in Arizona have strong ties to our area, Kathryn Brown reports. Phyllis Schneck, 79, grew up in Rutherford, met her husband at Rutherford High School, and still spent summers in New Jersey to see family. The grandmother was better known for her macaroni and cheese than her involvement in politics, but on Saturday, she went to a community event for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and became one of six Victims killed during a sho...

Former Phillies manager's granddaughter among Tucson victims
Los Angeles | Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:49am EST Los Angeles (Reuters) - The 9-year-old girl killed in the Tucson shooting rampage that critically wounded a member of Congress was the granddaughter of former Major League Baseball manager Dallas Green, his former team said on Sunday. The young Victim, Christina Taylor Green, was also the daughter of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball scout John Green. Dallas Green managed the Philadelphia Phillies team that won the World Series in 1980. "The Phillies organ...

Profiles of the Arizona shooting victims
The bullets did not discriminate. Sprayed from the barrel of a 9mm Glock semiautomatic pistol by a man whose actions may never make sense, they killed six people and wounded 14 more. Those whose lives ended violently Saturday were participating in a basic democratic exercise. They had come to meet the woman who represents them in Washington, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. A Democrat who had won her third term by a sliver, Giffords was the intended target of the shooter's attack, authorities said. Amo...

Giffords Shooting: Christina-Taylor Green, 9-Year-Old Killed In Arizona Shooting, Was Daughter Of Dodgers Employee
Los Angeles — Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is expressing condolences about the 9-year-old girl killed by a gunman who opened fire at an Arizona congresswoman's event. She is the granddaughter of former Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green and the daughter of a Dodgers scout. Christina-Taylor Green was shot outside a Tucson grocery story when she went to see Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was meeting with constituents there. McCourt says the team lost a member of the Dodger...

Tucson Shooting Suspect Loughner Held Without Bail
Jared Lee Loughner's mugshot The suspect in the Saturday shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and many others, which left six dead, appeared in court today. Jared Lee Loughner, 20, was held without bail and apparently smirked in court. His mugshot was also released, and it showed the young man with a big smile. Giffords was apparently the target of the shooting outside a Safeway in Tucson, AZ, where she was holding a constituent event. Among of those who died were Federal Judge John Roll and G...

Spaceman leads US shooting tribute
Scott Kelly, a crew member of the mission to the International Space Station, left, and his brother, Mark Kelly, also an Astronaut and husband of Gabrielle Giffords. Photo: AP Space station commander Scott Kelly led NASA in a moment of silence as he struggled with the shooting of his US congresswoman sister-in-law as well as six people who were killed. It was part of the national observance on Monday for all the Victims of Saturday's shooting in Arizona. His identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, i...

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Philly.com: Dallas Green's grief: 'My princess is gone' By JAN RANSOM & PAUL HAGEN Philadelphia Daily News "I can't believe my princess is gone." That's what former Phillies manager Dallas Green told the team's general manager, Ruben Amaro Jr., over the phone yesterday while en route to Arizona, reacting to the Murder of his 9-year-old granddaughter. Christina Green was killed in the hail of bullets in the Assassination attempt on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday as she waited i...

AZ shootings: McConnell, Yarmuth talk rhetoric and security
Related: Suspect in attack on congresswoman to appear in court McConnell speaks to Students about Tucson shootings Obama: US grieving, shocked over Ariz. rampage Military: alleged Giffords gunman failed Drug Test McConnell calls for review of congressional security (WHAS11) - The Assassination attempt of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that killed six and injured 14 others has sparked a national debate about whether inflammatory political Rhetoric was a factor in the attack. After Pim...

Giffords wrote to Harvard, seeking dialogue on civil discourse
US Representative Gabrielle Giffords wrote an e-mail Friday, a day before she was grievously wounded, congratulating the new director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and saying she wanted to talk with him about ways to tone down the political debate. Kentucky’s Secretary of State — Trey Grayson, a Republican who was named to the Harvard post earlier that day — had become friends with the Arizona congresswoman. They met when both were Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellows in P...

BCS game holds moment of silence before start
The BCS championship held a pregame moment of silence for Victims of the weekend Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. The tribute came during ceremonies shortly before kickoff of the game between Oregon and Auburn on Monday night. Names of the six Victims were read and Giffords was acknowledged before the moment of silence, which preceded a choir singing "God Bless America." Giffords was shot in the head in an attack outside a Grocery Store that left six people dead and 14...

Jared Loughner Appears In Court, Giffords 'Still Fighting' (LIVE UPDATES)
PHOENIX — The nation got its first look on Monday at the 22-year-old loner accused of trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Loughner, head shaved, a cut above the right temple and his hands cuffed, scanned a packed courtroom and sat down. His attorney, who defended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mcveigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, whispered to him. (SCROLL DOWN FOR LIVE UPDATES) The judge asked Loughner if he understood that he could get life in Prison - or the death pen...

Judges Purpose in Seeing Giffords Could Be Legally Significant
Was U.S. District Court Judge John M. Roll just being sociable when he dropped by an appearance by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in Tucson on Saturday, or was he planning to discuss official business? Does it even matter, given the horror of that morning? Yes, it could matter, legally speaking. At first glance, Roll’s state of mind might appear irrelevant, given the tragedy that unfolded on Saturday morning, when Roll was shot dead and Giffords gravely wounded in a rampage that killed ...

Obama Will Be in Arizona for Memorial
(NewsCore) - President Barack Obama will head to Arizona Wednesday for a memorial service being held in honor of the Victims of a shooting rampage that killed six and wounded more than a dozen Saturday, including US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Fox News Channel reported. Obama earlier Monday thanked Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for his department’s efforts in the aftermath of the shooting. The president also rang two heroes from the scene of the shooting, Patricia Maisch and Ro...

In a pall, official Washington a stunned place
(01-10) 19:32 PST WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- The nation's capital lumbered to work in a pall Monday, somber from the Congress to the White House, as official Washington absorbed an Assassination attempt against one of its own. Giving voice to the grief, President Barack Obama conceded that everyone was still in shock. By the end of the long day, Obama had secured plans to travel on Wednesday to Tucson, Ariz., to speak at a memorial service for the Victims of the deadly attack. White House spokesma...

Cantor observes moment of silence with staff in Henrico
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-7th, and his staff paused for a moment of silence Monday in honor of Victims of Saturday's shootings in Arizona. Video by Penelope M. Carrington/Times-Dispatc ... (more) » Article: Ariz. suspect in court; nation mourns fallen House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-7th, observed a moment of silence Monday in his Henrico County office in honor of the Victims of Saturday's shootings in Arizona. His local staff assembled for the 11 a.m. moment of silence as ...

On the Tucson shooting
This is going to come out like a disjointed rant. I don't care - that is what it is. OK, I've had enough. This did it for me.AT THE DIRECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE United States, THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE FLOWN AT HALF-STAFF UPON RECEIPT OF THIS MESSAGE, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, IN HONOR OR THE Shooting VictimS IN Tucson, Arizona. FURTHER GUIDANCE WILL BE PASSED UPON RECEIPT AS TO THE DURATION OF THIS HALF-STAFFING OBSERVANCE. THE FLAG SHALL BE FLOWN AT HALF-STAFF ON ALL DEPARTMENT ...

9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician
(01-09) 18:25 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- At age 9, Christina Taylor Green was already an aspiring politician with hopes of being the first woman to play major league Baseball. Her Patriotism was inspired by a tragedy on her birth date — Sept. 11, 2001, her family told the Arizona Daily Star on Sunday. Another national tragedy took the third-grader's life Saturday. She was shot in the chest and died Saturday, along with five other people killed outside a Supermarket where a neighbor had ta...

9-year-old shooting victim born Sept. 11, 2001...
Those who knew Christina Taylor Green said the precocious 9-year-old's interest in government was the reason she attended the event Saturday that left five others dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded. "She was all about helping people and being involved. It's so tragic," her mother, Roxanna Green, told the Arizona Daily Star. "She went to learn ... and then someone with so much hatred in their heart took the lives of innocent people." Stuffed bears and ribbons — pink, lavender,...

Dallas Greens Grandchild Killed In Ariz. Shooting
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The 9-year-old girl killed by a gunman who opened fire at an Arizona congresswoman’s event was the granddaughter of former major league manager, executive and pitcher Dallas Green. Green managed the Philadelphia Phillies to their first World Series championship in 1980. He currently is an executive adviser with the team. Green managed the New York Yankees for most of the 1989 season. He took over the New York Mets during the 1993 season and managed them through mo...

9-year-old killed in US shooting was born on 9/11
"She was born back east, and September 11 affected everyone there, and Christina-Taylor was always very aware of it. She was very patriotic and wearing red, white and blue was really special to her," Roxanne Green told the Arizona Daily Star. "She was born on 9/11, the day the towers came down in New York City," her father John Green told Fox News on Sunday. The dark-haired, brown-eyed third-grader was one of 50 babies born on that date featured in a book called "Faces of Hope." She had gone ...

Dallas Green's grandchild killed in Ariz shooting
(01-09) 17:14 PST Philadelphia, CA (AP) -- The 9-year-old girl killed by a gunman who opened fire at an Arizona congresswoman's event was the granddaughter of former major league manager, executive and pitcher Dallas Green. Green managed the Philadelphia Phillies to their first World Series championship in 1980. He currently is an executive adviser with the team. Christina Taylor Green was shot Saturday outside a Tucson grocery story when she went to see Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was meetin...