John Roll was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to the United States District Court for the District of Arizona . Roll was fatally shot in the 2011 Tucson shooting , which occurred on January 8 , 2011 outside a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes , Arizona , when a gunman opened fire at a " Congress on Your Corner " event held by Democratic U.S. House Representative Gabrielle Giffords ; Roll later succumbed to his injuries , as did five other people . Fourteen others were wounded including Giffords . Roll attended Mass earlier that morning and had decided to attend the event about an hour before the shooting . Roll lived in the area , and a Giffords staff member suggested that Roll " had simply gone to the Safeway where the shooting occurred to shop . " Jared Lee Loughner was taken into custody , charged by federal prosecutors with Roll 's murder , and pleaded guilty . Evidence gathered by federal investigators indicates that Rep. Giffords was the main target , and that Loughner may not have known he was shooting a federal judge
2011 Tucson shooting
2011 Tucson shooting
List of United States federal judges killed in office