US honors victims of shooting
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January 11, 2011, Tuesday
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A 22-YEAR-OLD man described as a social outcast faces a court hearing on charges he tried to assassinate a United States congresswoman in an Arizona shooting rampage that left six people dead.
A federal judge, a congressional aide and a young girl were among the six people killed, while Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others were injured in the bursts of gunfire outside a Tucson supermarket.
Public defenders asked that the attorney who defended Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Timothy McVeigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski defend Jared Loughner.
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Loughner was not cooperating and told ABC News the suspect had said "not a word" to investigators. Dupnik said authorities were all but certain Loughner acted alone, saying "he's a troubled individual who is a loner."
The hearing in Phoenix comes just a few hours after President Barack Obama led a shocked and saddened nation in a moment of silence for the victims and their families. Obama observed the moment of silence at 11am local time with White House staff on the South Lawn.
Those killed included US District Judge John Roll, 63, and nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was born on September 11, 2001, and was featured in a book called "Faces of Hope" that chronicled one baby from each state born on the day terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people in the US.
Others killed were Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman, 30; Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Schneck, 79.
As authorities filed the charges against Loughner on Sunday, they alleged he scrawled on an envelope the words "my assassination" and "Giffords" sometime before he took a cab to a shopping center where the congresswoman was meeting with constituents on Saturday morning.
Giffords, 40, is in intensive care at a Tucson hospital, after being shot in the head at close range. Doctors said she had responded repeatedly to commands to stick out her two fingers, giving them hope she may survive.
Neurosurgeon Dr Michael LeMole of Tucson's University Medical Center, appearing yesterday on CBS television, said, "the best way to -describe her this morning is that she's holding her own."
LeMole said he removed a portion of her skull in order to perform the surgery but will probably replace it at some point.
"We don't close the book on recovery for years," he said, "so it'll take as long as it takes. I think the real question will be how long it will take before she's out of the woods."
An official familiar with the shooting investigation said on Sunday that local authorities were looking at a -possible connection between Loughner and an online group known for white supremacist rhetoric.
A federal judge, a congressional aide and a young girl were among the six people killed, while Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others were injured in the bursts of gunfire outside a Tucson supermarket.
Public defenders asked that the attorney who defended Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Timothy McVeigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski defend Jared Loughner.
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Loughner was not cooperating and told ABC News the suspect had said "not a word" to investigators. Dupnik said authorities were all but certain Loughner acted alone, saying "he's a troubled individual who is a loner."
The hearing in Phoenix comes just a few hours after President Barack Obama led a shocked and saddened nation in a moment of silence for the victims and their families. Obama observed the moment of silence at 11am local time with White House staff on the South Lawn.
Those killed included US District Judge John Roll, 63, and nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was born on September 11, 2001, and was featured in a book called "Faces of Hope" that chronicled one baby from each state born on the day terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people in the US.
Others killed were Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman, 30; Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Schneck, 79.
As authorities filed the charges against Loughner on Sunday, they alleged he scrawled on an envelope the words "my assassination" and "Giffords" sometime before he took a cab to a shopping center where the congresswoman was meeting with constituents on Saturday morning.
Giffords, 40, is in intensive care at a Tucson hospital, after being shot in the head at close range. Doctors said she had responded repeatedly to commands to stick out her two fingers, giving them hope she may survive.
Neurosurgeon Dr Michael LeMole of Tucson's University Medical Center, appearing yesterday on CBS television, said, "the best way to -describe her this morning is that she's holding her own."
LeMole said he removed a portion of her skull in order to perform the surgery but will probably replace it at some point.
"We don't close the book on recovery for years," he said, "so it'll take as long as it takes. I think the real question will be how long it will take before she's out of the woods."
An official familiar with the shooting investigation said on Sunday that local authorities were looking at a -possible connection between Loughner and an online group known for white supremacist rhetoric.
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