TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A congresswoman from Arizona was shot and seriously wounded and six other people were killed by a man who opened fire at a meeting the politician was holding in Tucson today, officials said.
Gabrielle Giffords, a 40-year-old Democrat in her third term in the House of Representatives, was airlifted to a hospital in Tucson after being shot in the head at point-blank range outside a Safeway supermarket in the Arizona city.