Giffords Shooting: 9-Year-Old Victim Was a 9/11 Baby, a 'Face of Hope'

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,...

Psychologists help friends of 9-year-old victim
In this photo combo, Victims killed at a political event with Rep. Gabrielle... TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Psychologists are talking to Students at the school of a 9-year-old girl killed in a Tucson shooting rampage. Associate Superintendent Todd Jaeger says the goal Monday is to keep the day as normal as possible for Students at Mesa Verde Elementary School, where Christina Taylor Greene was a third-grader. A memorial of ribbons across a fence in front of the school has been slowly growing as stude...

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 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 ...

9-year-old killed in US shooting spree 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 ...

9-Year-Old Tuscon Victim's Dad: Execute Gunman
Like this Story? Share it: Roxanna and John Green, the parents of Christina Green, on "The Early Show." (CBS) (CBS) On Sunday, "Early Show" co-anchor Erica Hill sat down with Roxanna and John Green, the parents of the Christina Green, the youngest Victim of Saturday's massacre in Tucson that claimed the lives of six people. The couple spoke of their deep love for their child at a time of unspeakable pain and sorrow. Hill said when John and Roxanna Green think about their 9-year-old daughter, ...

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...

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Funeral of 9-Yr-Old Girl Murdered in Tucson
Westboro Baptist Church says that God sent the shooter to Tucson, Arizona to kill and maim as many people as possible. And the followers of WBC plans on protesting at the Funeral of 9 year-old Murder Victim Christina-Taylor Greene. Christina was born on September 11, 2001, and was shot Saturday morning waiting to meet her Congresswoman, and passed away a short time later at the University of Arizona Medical Center. According to her father, John, Christina was recently elected to the
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Fox News Head Tells Hosts 'Shut Up, Tone It Down' After Giffords Shooting
Roger Ailes, the conservative who heads the Fox News Channel, has told his traditionally outspoken hosts to "shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually" in the wake of the massacre in Tuscon that is putting overheated right-wing Rhetoric under intense scrutiny. After the Arizona Massacre, Will Congress Ever Be the Same? "I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually," Ailes said in an interview with Russell Simmons, the global hip-hop impresario, ...

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...

Heroic Giffords Intern Could Be Asked For Papers Under Arizona Immigration Law
WASHINGTON -- When a gunman attacked Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and others on Saturday, 20-year-old intern Daniel Hernandez ran toward the shots to try to save those who were injured. He stopped to check pulses on several Victims before finding Giffords, who had been shot in the head. Hernandez applied pressure to the wound, holding his boss of five days until his clothes were soaked with her blood. Hernandez, trained as a nursing assistant, lifted her head so that she wouldn't choke on...

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...

Arizona gov. focuses on Saturday shooting in State of State
In a somber opening address of the new session of the Arizona legislature  Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) said that the Saturday shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was an assault on American Democracy. "Saturday's events were not just an attack on those individuals we loved and lost but an assault on our constitutional republic, on our democracy," Brewer said "Arizona is in pain. Yes, our grief is profound. We are yet in the first hours of our sorrows but we have not been brought down....

Nine-Year-Old Victim's Uncle: 'How Do You Prepare For Something Like This?'
Christina-Taylor Green, dead in a political drive-by shooting at the age of nine. Dear God, what has all this hate done to our country? In a sad irony, Christina-Taylor was featured in a book called “Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11." She was the granddaughter of Dallas Green, the manager who led my beloved Phillies to our first World Series in 1980. She was the only girl on her Baseball team, playing second base. She had the Baseball genes. TUCSON, Ariz. - A 9-year-old girl was among t...

Holding Giffordss Hands
“It sounds simple to raise fingers and squeeze hands,” a neurosurgeon told a reporter for the Times, who’d asked about Gabrielle Giffords. But it isn’t, the doctor said; it’s a complicated thing, and implies a good deal about the state your brain is in. Moving your fingers to a certain part of a pistol and squeezing the trigger; hearing someone ask you to hold on and hold tighter, and doing so. Giffords, thankfully, has begun to do the second of those, and is respon...

9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician
In this photo combo, Victims killed at a political event with Rep. Gabrielle... 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. She had just been elected to the Student council at Tucson's Mesa Verde Elementary School and was interested in politics from a young age. Born on Sept. 11, 2001, the third-grader was among six people killed Saturday outside a Supermarket where a neighbor had ta...

9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician
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. She had just been elected to the Student council at Tucson’s Mesa Verde Elementary School and was interested in politics from a young age. Born on Sept. 11, 2001, the third-grader was among six people killed Saturday outside a Supermarket where a neighbor had taken her to meet Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The brown-ey...

Could Arizona shooting have been prevented?
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON | Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:51pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old Arizona man charged with killing six people and injuring 12 others, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, clearly scared more than a few people. Instructors at his college, as well as friends and neighbors, have said they expressed concerns about Loughner's behavior in the months before he opened fire at a gathering at a Tucson Shopping Mall on Sa...

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 ...

Colorado Senator Staffers Threatened
(Wall Street Journal) - A Colorado man is scheduled for his first court appearance Monday afternoon on charges of threatening to attack the staff of Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, The Wall Street Journal reported. John Troy Davis, 44, was arrested Friday after allegedly threatening the senator's Denver staff in repeated phone calls over several weeks as he sought help obtaining Social Security benefits. During one such conversation, on Thursday, he allegedly said he "may go to Terrorism" and to...

Report: Loughner Got Bullets at Walmart
(Wall Street Journal) - Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner was turned away from a Walmart store when he tried to buy ammunition -- but was sold the bullets at another Walmart nearby, hours before the rampage, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Federal investigators probing the shooting are focusing on the sequence of Loughner's actions as they try to establish that he was acting with some planning despite his apparent Mental Health issues, a...

Suspected Ariz. gunman Jared Loughers five run-ins with college campus police (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Tea Party Express raising money in reaction to aftermath of Arizona shooting Barbara Walters: 'I'm feeling bad for Sarah Palin' TheDC on TV: Jamie Weinstein on RT's 'The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann' Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in Prison Political cartoons exploit Arizona tragedy in effort to score crude political points Jared Lougher, the 22-year-old suspected gunman in Saturday’s Tucson, Ariz. shooting, had five run-ins with Pima Communi...

"How Did He Fall Through the Cracks?"
The weekend shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which killed six bystanders, shows the consequences of an economy that focuses primarily on financial gain, and ignores the human cost. As About.com Guide to Conservatives Justin Quinn asks: The shooter was identified Saturday evening as Jared Lee Loughner, a man whose Internet ramblings (which were taken down after the shooting) further identify him as mentally ill. ...The real question for the people of Arizona should be how som...

Harper blames Dupnik for Giffords shooting
Source: AzCentral.com While her doctors sounded an optimistic tone on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery, the political discourse is growing harsher. State Rep. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, partly blamed the shooting on Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who has himself blamed caustic political Rhetoric and lax gun-control as contributing to the massacre. "If he would have done his job, maybe this doesn't happen," Harper told USA Today on Monday. "Sheriff Dupnik did not provide for the securit...

McCollum: Shootings Shouldnt Push People Away From Their Congressional Representatives
The shootings of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and nineteen others on Saturday in Tucson, Arizona has put some lawmakers on high alert and forced them to think twice about their comings and goings with the public. But since it is the public who voted them into office, and it is the public they represent in Washington, congressional members now find themselves caught in a conundrum; should they continue to interact with constituents or be carefully cautious of them?Rep. Betty McCollu...