Officials have released the name of the 9 year-old girl killed in the shooting of Gabby Giffords and 18 others in Tuscon today. Her name is Christina Taylor Green, and a neighbor had brought her along to the Safeway to meet Rep. Giffords because she thought she would enjoy it, according to her uncle Greg Segalini.
Christina has recently been elected to serve on her school's student council, and was active in baseball and ballet. And according to the NBC DC affiliate and the Sydney Morning Herald, she was born on 9/11 and was included in the book "Faces of Hope, Babies Born on 9/11."
I've tried to hold back from commenting much today on events, trying to figure out what went on and how the pieces fit together before drawing conclusions. But it is just incredibly tragic that a young girl whose birth was supposed to symbolize hope and rebirth for America in the wake of 9/11 met her demise as she was shot in the chest in the midst of an undeniable culture of violence that continues to hold us in its grip.
Law enforcement officials have also released the names of the others killed in the shooting: Dorwan Stoddard, 76, whose wife Mavanell was shot in the legs but is expected to recover; Dorothy Murray, 76 and Phyllis Schenk, 79.
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