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On January 8, 2011, United States Representative Gabby Giffords and 18 others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the Tucson metropolitan area.
Gabrielle Dee Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is an American retired politician and gun control activist. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Arizona's 8th congressional district from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned because of a severe brain injury suffered during an assassination attempt.
Representative Preston Brooks, a Democrat from South Carolina's 4th district, assaulted Sumner with a cane on the floor of the Senate in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The attack followed Sumner's verbal attacks on pro-slavery politicians (including Brooks's relative, Senator Andrew Butler). [15] Josiah Bushnell Grinnell
The former representative and shooting survivor to speak at DNC. Margie Cullen, USA TODAY. August 22, 2024 at 3:36 PM. ... Giffords was shot in the head in an assassination attempt. She had ...
Gabrielle Giffords, a former member of Congress who was shot in the head in 2011, is urging President Trump to prioritize public safety over corporate gun lobby and industry profits, and to ...
On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot during the attack on the United States Capitol. [1] [2] [3] She was part of a crowd of supporters of then outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump who stormed the United States Capitol building seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Jared Lee Loughner (/ ˈ l ɒ f n ər /; born September 10, 1988) is an American mass murderer who pleaded guilty to 19 charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with the January 8, 2011, Tucson shooting, in which he shot and severely injured U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords, and killed six people, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll, Gabe Zimmerman, a member of ...
At the crime scene, Vega said responding officers found three women shot. Officer shot: Person in custody for fatal shooting of Chicago police officer. Group was drinking, talking politics hours ...