G is for Gabby Giffords

Another entry for the A to Z challenge.
I am taking this account of the events in Tucson AZ from the Wikipedia entry.

Jan. 8, 2011, about 10:10 in the morning.  A United States Representative from Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, was holding a constituent meeting called "Congress on Your Corner" at the Safeway supermarket in La Toscana Village mall, which is in Casas Adobes, an unincorporated area north of Tucson, Arizona. Giffords had set up a table outside the store and about 20 to 30 people were gathered around her when a 22-year-old man suddenly drew a semi automatic pistol and shot Giffords in the head.  He then shot randomly at the crowd.  The shooter stopped to reload, but dropped the loaded magazine from his pocket to the sidewalk, from where bystander Patricia Maisch grabbed it. Another bystander clubbed the back of the assailant's head with a folding chair, injuring his elbow in the process. The shooter was tackled to the ground by Bill Badger, a 74-year-old retired United States Army Colonel who had also been shot himself. The shooter was further subdued by Maisch and bystanders Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zamudio.

While waiting for help to arrive, Giffords' intern Daniel Hernández Jr. applied pressure to the gunshot wound on her forehead, and made sure she did not choke on her blood. Hernández was credited with saving Giffords' life.

Six people were killed in the attack.

Christina-Taylor Green, 9
Dorothy "Dot" Morris, 76
John Roll, 63
Phyllis Schneck, 79
Dorwan Stoddard, 76
Gabriel "Gabe" Zimmerman, 30 a congressional staffer for Giffords

In addition to the six dead, thirteen other people were wounded by gunshot in the attack, while a fourteenth person was injured subduing the shooter. Gabrielle Giffords and two other members of her staff were among the surviving gunshot victims.

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