Friday, January 14, 2011

Killing of Tucson: America celebrates the youngest victim

Tucson, correspondent - In black families. White, the "angels". In the sky, a huge American flag that obscures the church. The youngest victim of the killing of 8 January in Tucson was the first buried, Thursday, January 13, the day after the tribute paid by Barack Obama in 6 dead and 13 wounded in the shooting, one of which is still under subject of intensive care, even if it started moving his arms and legs, Democrat Gabrielle Giffords House.

Christina Taylor-Green was 9 years old. She had been brought by a neighbor at the election meeting Ms. Giffords because she had just been elected class representative and her interest in politics. His date of birth, September 11, 2001, gave his death mark of destiny. Firefighters came to New York with a flag of 9 by 6 meters, a survivor of the attacks against the World Trade Center.

It took a couple of carriers to deploy between two ladders of fire trucks. Hundreds of people crowded along the avenue leading to the church of Saint ElizabethAnn Seton in residential areas that eat the hills north of Tucson. Instruction had been given to wear only white, and a group of volunteers had made the wings of angels.

The Tea Party had asked its supporters to join the event, avoiding any mark or any political message. At sunset, there were still messages and teddy bears outside the church. A new shrine was born. At the bottom of the city, before the university hospital, where Gabrielle Giffords, candles now number in the hundreds.

In front of the Safeway supermarket, another "altar" has been struck. The authorities have released new information about Jared Loughner, the young killer. This is his administrative record in community college (sort of IUT) in the county. Since January 2010, teachers had to call campus police five times.

The morning of the shooting, he was checked by police after he ran a red light. It was a warning but the officer did not search his car. His father saw him out with a big black bag and tried to dissuade him from leaving. The bag was found on Wednesday: it contained an additional stock of ammunition.

Corine Lesnes

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