[ sound of gunfire ] i was holding christina s hand and looking at gabby standing in front of the american flag and the arizona state flag, and she just slid. the shooter turned the gun on me and judge roll, and it was this pop, pop, pop, pop sound. i went down, john went down. gabby was already down on the ground. then i saw blood pooling up. 911, what is your emergency? ms. giffords. hello? hello? 911, there was a shooting at safeway. okay. what do you mean? where gabrielle giffords was. and i do believe gabrielle giffords was hit. i could see the gunman still shooting into the people who were up against the wall and lined up. looked like the guy had had a semiautomatic pistol and he went
in. he just started firing. and then he ran. the next thing i remember is gabe zimmerman falling between myself and gabby and her feet. his face was turned toward me and i could see he was dead. i got to the front of the line and i see ron barber. i see he has at least one injury in his leg and another one somewhere in his face. and he says, don t worry about me. go help gabby. how many people? we have a total of ten people, maybe more. gabby was hunched over on the ground, and i could only find one injury. and that was a gunshot wound to her heads. i got behind her, and i hug her up against my body to stabilize her and to use my hand to try and stop any blood loss. i remember saying, i ve been shot and lying on the ground holding christina s hand. and then i heard the sirens.
to meet one of them. and then gabby got out of the car. she was in a great mood. she was excited to see people, to hear from them. because gabby often said that the term representative is a job description, meaning that you have to hear from people that you represent if you re going to represent them. we started congress in your corner promptly at 10:00, took our positions. i looked to the left, and i saw judge john roll. he stepped in to the area where we were standing. and it wasn t two seconds later that the shooting started. [ sound of gunfire ] i was holding christina s hand, and i m looking at gabby standing in front of the american flag and the arizona state flag, and she just slid. the shooter turned the gun on me and judge roll, and it was
somewhere in his face. and he says, don t worry about me. go help gabby. how many people? we have a total of ten people, maybe more. gabby was hunched over on the ground, and i could only find one injury. and that was a gunshot wound to her head. i got behind her, and i hug her up against my body to stabilize her and to use my hand to try and stop any blood loss. i remember saying, i ve been shot and lying on the ground holding christina s hand. and then i heard the sirens. it was a horrific scene. several of the victims had multiple gunshot wounds. there were rounds that were traveling at a high speed that were going through not only the victims bodies, but they were going into the building itself and striking against the back of the building.