The six victims that lost their lives on Saturday January 8, 2011
Killed: U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, 63.
The chief federal judge in Arizona lived nearby and stopped by to say hello to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was meeting with constituents.
Roll was married with three children. According to the Arizona Republic, he started his legal career as a bailiff in Pima County Superior Court and later served as assistant city attorney in Tucson.
After a stint as a criminal prosecutor in Pima County, he joined the U.S. Attorneys Office in 1980, specializing in drug cases. He was appointed He was appointed to the Arizona Appeals Court in 1987 and named to the federal bench by President George H. W. Bush in 1991.
Roll, a Pennsylvania native, received death threats in 2009 over a $32 million civil-rights suit filed against an Arizona rancher by illegal immigrants. At the time, Roll and U.S. Marshal officials attributed the threats to hysteria from talk radio.
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Killed: Christina-Taylor Green, 9, died at the hospital an hour after she was shot at the event.
The third-grader already was an aspiring politician. Christina had just been elected to the student council at Mesa Verde Elementary School and had been interested in politics from a young age.
She already had told her parents she wanted to attend Penn State and have a career that involved helping those less fortunate than her. Her mother, Roxanna Green, said Christina also loved animals, singing, dancing and gymnastics. She also was the only girl on her Canyon del Oro Little League baseball team.
Her grandfather, former major-league pitcher Dallas Green, managed the 1980 world champion Philadelphia Phillies. Christina's father, John Green, is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Christina was born on the tragic day of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Killed: Dorwin Stoddard, 76.
Everyone who knew Dorwan Stoddard thought he would die of complications from one of his 17 heart stents, or during one his numerous construction projects at Mountain Avenue Church of Christ. During his latest project, he fell 20 feet when a ladder buckled, said his pastor and friend Michael Nowak.
When the shooting started Saturday, he dove to the ground, covering his wife Mavy, who was shot in the leg three times. The couple had been grade school sweethearts growing up in Tucson. After their respective spouses died, they independently moved back to retire, became reacquainted and fell in love all over again.
Mavy Stoddard talked to her husband, who was shot in the head, for 10 minutes while he breathed heavily. Then he stopped breathing. He had two sons from his first marriage, and Mavy has three daughters.
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Killed: Dorothy Morris, 76.
Known to her friends as "Dot," she was a homemaker and retired secretary who lived north of Tucson in Oro Valley, Ariz.
Her husband, George, a former Marine and retired airline pilot, remains hospitalized after suffering two gunshot wounds. One of the couple's daughters said George Morris tried to protect his wife of 50 years by throwing her to the ground and trying to get on top of her to shield her. The couple both grew up in Reno, Nev., and were high school sweethearts. They settled in Oro Valley around 1995.
Sue Blinman, who lives next door in a retirement community, said the couple traveled extensively and escaped Tucson's summer heat by heading up to their home in the eastern Arizona mountain community of Pinetop. "They were always good neighbors," Blinman said.
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Killed: Gabe Zimmerman, 30.
The director of community outreach for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords handled thousands of issues raised by constituents out of the congresswoman's offices in Tucson and Sierra Vista.
Co-workers say Zimmerman, who had a master's degree in social work, cared passionately about helping people. "He was a master at dealing with people," said C.J. Karamargin, a spokesman for Giffords.
Zimmerman was one of the Giffords staffers who organized many public events where voters could meet Giffords and talk to her about issues. Zimmerman, who is survived by a brother, was engaged to be married.
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Killed: Phyllis Schneck, 79.
She and her husband spent their winters in Tucson and summers in their native Rutherford, N.J. "They didn't want to ever have to deal with the snow again," said Schneck's daughter, B.J. Offutt of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Schneck, who continued to return to Tucson in the winters even after her husband died in 2007, was a homemaker who raised her two daughters and one son and had a talent for cooking.
In retirement, Schneck kept herself occupied by volunteering at her church. Her home in Tucson was less than four miles from the supermarket where the shooting took place.
Offutt said her mother's appearance at the store was surprising, because she normally shopped at a different store and wasn't very political.
Schneck is survived by her three children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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A partial list of the wounded
Wounded: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, 40.
The Democratic congresswoman from Arizona was meeting with constituents at a Tucson Safeway when gunfire erupted on Saturday.
Dr. Peter Rhee of the University of Arizona Medical Center said later that Giffords underwent surgery for a "through and through" gunshot wound to the head, meaning the bullet went through her brain and exited the other side of her head. He said she was in critical condition, but that he was "very optimistic" about her recovery. Giffords has been a political trailblazer in Arizona. A former Republican businesswoman, she was the youngest woman ever elected to the Arizona State Senate in 2002 and became Arizona's first Jewish representative when she was elected to Congress in 2006. She also served in the Arizona House of Representatives.
The threat of violence is not new to Giffords: She was among at least 10 Democrats who expressed concern for their safety last year after receiving anonymous threats for supporting the health reform bill.
Just hours after legislators including Giffords voted to approve President Barack Obama's controversial health care bill in March 2009, the front door of her Tuscon office was vandalized. In August 2010, a man dropped a gun at a town-hall style event she was holding at a Safeway supermarket.
Giffords' husband, Mark, is an astronaut and is currently scheduled to command a shuttle flight in March.
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Wounded: George Morris.
The retired airline pilot remains in critical condition. His wife of more than 50 years, Dorothy Morris, was killed.
One of the couple's daughters said George Morris tried to protect his wife by throwing her to the ground and trying to get on top of her to shield her.
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Wounded: Bill Badger, 74.
Badger was one of several bystanders at the Giffords' event who helped subdue the gunman after he started shooting. The retired Army colonel was grazed by a bullet to the back of his head. He was later treated and released from the hospital.
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Wounded: Mavanell Stoddard, 75 was attending the Giffords event in Tucson with her husband when shooting erupted. According to a Washington Post report, she was shot several times in the leg, but was expected to recover.
Her husband Dorwin Stoddard was killed while trying to shield her from the barrage of bullets.
The report, citing the Stoddard's pastor, said Mavenell had wanted to stop by to praise her congresswoman for doing a good job.
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Wounded: Ron Barber, aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
Barber is staff director for Rep. Giffords and was her campaign manager.
According to Barber's online journal, cited by the publication TPM.com, he had a six-hour surgery on Sunday, and would have further surgeries this week, but was expected to be moved out of the intensive care unit soon.
The Albequerque Journal, citing friends of the aide, reported that Barber had been shot in the leg and the mouth.
Suspected shooter Jared Lee Loughner is accused of attempting to kill Barber, one of five charges filed.
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Wounded: Pamela Simon, a community outreach representative for Giffords was injured in the shooting. Details of her condition were not available, but reports said she was expected to recover.
Simon has worked with Giffords since she came into office in 2007.
Suspected shooter Jared Lee Loughner is accused of attempting to kill Simon, one of five charges filed.
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Wounded: Eric Fuller, 63.
A military veteran and retired limousine driver, hit in the leg and back by bullet fragments.
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Wounded: Susan Hileman, 58.
Shot in the leg, hip, abdomen and chest while accompanying Christina-Taylor Green.
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Wounded: Mary Reed,
Who attended with her family, was shot in the back and both arms while shielding her 17-year-old daughter against a wall.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/09/nation/la-na-arizona-shooting-victims-20110110/4
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40981099/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Wounded
((This is a partial list and will be updated as more information is released.))
