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JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: New memorial is celebration of life, spirituality, reflection and mourning JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: New memorial celebration of life, spirituality and reflection By Damien Alameda | January 8, 2021 at 4:34 PM MST - Updated January 8 at 6:07 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Some call it a place of spirituality, reflection or even mourning. But for the designers of the January 8 Memorial, it is also a celebration of life. “Memorials are a really unique project type,” said architect Tina Chee. “It requires many layers of meaning.” Chee and partner Marc Salette create...

JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: Response to tragedy says a lot about Tucson community JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: Response to tragedy says a lot about Tucson community By Brooke Wagner | January 8, 2021 at 4:41 PM MST - Updated January 8 at 6:34 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - As they had for three decades, the Bowmans stopped by a Tucson Safeway on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. The parking lot was full for a Congress on your Corner event with Gabby Giffords. As the Bowmans were bagging brussels sprouts and deciding whether to stop and meet Giffords, they heard several shots ring out. Nancy Bowman, David’s wi...

Today marks 10th anniversary of Tucson mass shooting It has now been 10 years since the January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson. and last updated 2021-01-08 21:07:20-05 TUCSON, AZ — Today marks 10 years since the mass shooting in Tucson that claimed the lives of six people. The shooting also left 13 people wounded, including then-U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Giffords was the target at the meet-and-greet event with constituents outside a supermarket and was gravely wounded after being shot in the head. Today, my heart and mind are with those we lost in the Tucson shooting: Christina-Tay...

Capitol uprising reminds Gabby Giffords of the day she was shot, six were killed 10 years ago Updated Jan 08, 2021; Facebook Share Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had just been sworn in to her third term representing Arizona’s 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Jan. 8, 2011, she was in Pima County, Ariz., near Tucson, meeting with constituents during a “Congress on Your Corner” event outside a Safeway grocery store. On that day, 10 years ago, a man with a gun ran up to her and others and began shooting. Giffords, 40, was shot in the head at close range. Six peo...

Monsignor John Lyons, on Judge John Roll Be he a beggar or a king, he respected everyone equally. That was who he was. Quote icon The city prosecutor position was one of his first jobs after graduating from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1972. He stayed only four months before moving to the Pima County Attorney’s Office, where he almost didn’t get hired because the chief deputy county attorney, James Howard, said he thought Roll “was too bashful and quiet to be a trial lawyer.” Howard was wrong. In his seven years in the office, Roll prosecuted more jury trials than anyon...