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15 JANUARY 2010 - TUCSON, AZ: Safeway employees SARAH PREWITT-CHO (left), DAWN GALLAGHER (center, dark hair) and SHAYNE SPUDE (right) comfort each other at the memorial for the victims of a a mass shooting in Tucson, AZ, Saturday, January 15, one week after the shooting. Six people were killed and 14 injured in the shooting spree at a "Congress on Your Corner" event hosted by Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a Safeway grocery store in north Tucson on January 8. Congresswoman Giffords, the intended target of the attack, was shot in the head and seriously injured in the attack but is recovering. Doctors announced that they removed her breathing tube Saturday, one week after the attack. The alleged gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, was wrestled to the ground by bystanders when he stopped shooting to reload the Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol. Loughner is currently in federal custody at a medium security prison near Phoenix. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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- Jack Kurtz
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- Phoenix 2011, 2011 Pictures of the Year
