"Mind Control" Mass Shooter: Jared Loughner [Updated]
Jared Lee Loughner, at a book fair recently. Photo: Business Insider Lee Harvey Oswald. Gabrielle Giffords, the assassination attempt target. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic Congresswoman, the first Jewish woman representative from Arizona, was shot through her brain in a mass shooting at a Safeway parking lot in Tuscon, Arizona, on January 8th, 2011, at about 10:10 am, local Arizona time. Earlier in the afternoon, CNN and NPR reported that she had died. But later, the news was changed to a report that she had survived. Six other people, including a nine-year-old girl who was born on 9/11, were killed, and a total of 18 were injured. Federal law enforcement sources said that John M. Roll, the senior U.S. District judge in Arizona, was shot and killed in the incident. An aide of Giffords, a former social worker, also apparently was among those who have died. A 22-year old man was taken into custody after being tackled by people in the small crowd after the shootin...