My deepest sympathies to her husband and the folks she represented.
I don't know anything about her or her policies but nobody deserves to be shot down like a dog.
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona died after being shot in the head while meeting constituents at a grocery store in Tucson, NPR reported on Saturday.
Giffords, a 40-year-old Democrat in her third term in Congress, was shot point blank by an unidentified gunman who fired indiscriminately into the crowd, NPR and other U.S. media said.
About a dozen others at the meeting were shot and the gunman was wrestled to the ground and taken into custody, Fox said, citing an eyewitness.
Giffords was airlifted to a hospital to a hospital after the shooting.
Re-elected in the November 2 election, Giffords focused on immigration reform, military issues, stem cell research and alternative energy while serving in Congress. She was married to U.S. astronaut Mark Kelly.
She's not dead, yet. In surgery last I heard, but the news orgs that have 'confirmed' her dead have all redacted that, now.
ReplyDeleteUS District Court Judge John Roll was killed.
ReplyDeleteThanks. That's what I get for not double checking NPR.....
ReplyDeleteEvery news agency was reporting her as dead, it's not just NPR.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but I hate the liberal NPR, that's why I'm blaming them.
ReplyDeleteActually I got the news from Yahoo who quoted NPR.