Lawmaker in critical state, 6 dead in Arizona shooting spree
01/10/2011TUCSON, Arizona — A US congresswoman was in critical condition after being shot in the head Saturday (Sunday, Manila time) by a gunman who opened fire in Tucson, Arizona, killing six persons, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, 40, a member of President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party, was meeting constituents at a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona when the assailant unleashed a volley of automatic fire.
Obama called the attack a “tragedy for our entire country.”
The House of Representatives, which opened under new Republican leadership just
three days earlier, called off proceedings for the upcoming week..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110110hed4.html
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