2011 Tucson mass shooting victims
Six people died and 13 were injured when a gunman opened fire outside the Safeway store at Ina and Oracle roads on Jan. 8, 2011.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding a "Congress On Your Corner" event on Tucson's northwest side when the attack occurred.
Not pictured:Kenneth Veeder, who was among those injured in the shooting, ӰAV archives show.
Christina-Taylor Green
Killed: Christina-Taylor Green, age 9.
Judge John Roll
Killed: Federal Judge John Roll, District of Arizona
Gabe Zimmerman
Killed: Gabe Zimmerman, aide to Rep. Giffords.
Phyllis Schneck
Killed: Phyllis Schneck
Dorothy Morris
Killed: Dorothy Morris
Dorwan Stoddard
Killed: Dorwan Stoddard, 76
Gabrielle Giffords
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, pictured after treatment for a gunshot wound to the head.
Bill Badger
Bill Badger, a retired Army National Guard colonel, was grazed by a bullet on the back of his head yet he wasone of the men who tackled Jared Lee Loughner and prevented him from reloading his gun."I'm a little more jumpy than I was before," he said. "If I hear, you know, a door slam or something, or a loud noise, why - you jump."
Ron Barber
Ron Barber, director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' district office, sits in his Tucson officeon his first day back to work in the July 5, 2011 file photo. It appears more and more like Barber will run for her seat in the special election.
Ken and Carol Dorushka
Ken Dorushka was shot in the forearm as he shielded his wife, Carol. "I find myself watching people a little more closely than I used to. I saw a guy in the grocery store walking around with a gun on his hip, and that disturbed me tremendously."
Eric Fuller
Eric Fuller, whowas shot twice, feared he would be unable to play tennis, but he has resumed playing.However, his emotional recovery has not been so smooth. Hewas taken for a mental-health evaluation at Palo Verde Hospital, where he spent several days, after disrupting atown-hall-style television program in the aftermath of the shootings.
Randy Gardner
Randy Gardner was shot through the right foot, just below the ankle, as he chatted with retiree Phyllis Schneck, who died in the shooting."The doctors told me it was miraculous it didn't hit any bone," Gardner said.
Suzi Hileman
Suzi Hileman touches Pima County Sheriff's Deputy Gilbert Caudillo, who helped Hileman after she was shot in the chest and right hip. "He saved my life," she said of Caudillo. "I'm only here because of that."
George Morris
George Morris was shot in his back and lower left legas he tried in vain to shield his wife, Dorothy, from a spray of gunfire."This is someone I fell madly in love with when I was 16," he said. "I miss her terribly."
Mary Reed
Mary Reed was shot in the arms and back as she shielded her 17-year-old daughter, Emma McMahon. She also suffered shrapnel wounds to the face and leg.Reed's whole family - her husband, Tom McMahon, and their two teenagers - was in line to see Giffords when gunfire erupted."They can never forget it," Reed said. "But I'm hoping they heal."
Pam Simon
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' community outreach coordinator, Pam Simon,was shot in the chest and through the right wrist.The bullet that entered her chest lodged in her upper hip."I am very lucky. The doctors are still scratching their heads," Simon said. "Quite miraculously, other than chipping my pelvic bone, the bullet did not damage any internal organs."
Mavanell "Mavy" Stoddard
Mavanell "Mavy" Stoddard was shot three times in the legs. Stoddard also lost her husband, Dorwan "Dory" Stoddard, who died as he shielded Mavy from the gunfire. "I have to go to my good memories of a wonderful man and not dwell on the bad," Stoddard said.
Jim Tucker
Jim Tucker, pictured with Giffords and his wife, Doris, moments before the shooting, was shot in the calf and the the right collarbone. The bullet that hit his collarbone split apart and lodged in various parts of his back. One fragment cracked a vertebra.The photo shows government working the way it's supposed to work, he said."She was doing the thing she does best. She listens to constituents." Doris wasn't injured in the attack.
Up until about 11 a.m. on Jan. 8, 2011, that date had always meant one thing to me: My brother’s birthday.
Since they live with the tragedy each day, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' staff members will not be marking six months since Jan. 8. "It's going to be a regular workday. We aren't doing anything in the office," Giffords spokesman C.J. Karamargin said Thursday.
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Six people died and 13 were injured when a gunman opened fire outside the Safeway store at Ina and Oracle roads north of Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011.
"I try to live my best life for her," says a friend ofChristina-Taylor Green, who was nine years old when she became one of six people killed in the Jan. 8, 2011, mass shooting that targeted then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Tucson's January 8th Memorial will be dedicated Friday in a small ceremony that will be closed to the public because of the pandemic. The memorial might not open to the public for another month.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will speak at the event, along with emergency room physician Dr. Randall Friese and survivors Patricia Maisch, Daniel Hernandez, Mary Reed and Emma McMahon.
It’s been 10 years.
Meanwhile, a foundation hopes a permanent January 8 memorial will be complete in 2020.
Remember the 19 Tucsonans killed and injured four years ago.
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Eight years ago, a man opened fire at a "Congress On Your Corner" event outside a Tucson Safeway.
Ron Barber, a former congressman who was wounded in the Tucson attack, testified in support of a bill to make the downtown memorial an “affiliated area” of the National Park System.