Youngest Tucson Victim was born on 9/11
WHITFIELD: Tomorrow marks a horrible day in American history. One year ago Sunday, a gunman went on a rampage in Tucson killing six people. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was among the critically wounded. Remarkably she survived after a bullet went through her brain. Giffords is expected to attend a vigil honoring the victims. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez has more.</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): ... breaking news for you. Several people have been shot. The shooting occurred at a grocery store.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have discovered that we have 18 individuals who were shot.</s>THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): January 8th, 2011. A date Tucson will never forget.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The bodies laying on the concrete.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The screaming, the crying, the bleeding.</s>GUTIERREZ: Nineteen 19 people were shot that day, six of them died. The youngest, 9-year-old Christina Greene was one of many who had gone to the Safeway Store to meet Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Christina was there with her neighbor Susie Heilemann.</s>SUZIE HEILMAN, SHOOTING VICTIM: And then this gunshot.</s>GUTIERREZ: Christina was shot in the chest.</s>HEILMAN: I was holding hands with Christina. We were just eyeball to eyeball. She was confused and scared and I knew when we were lying on the ground outside of Safeway the light went out of her eyes.</s>GUTIERREZ: As many of the victims lay bleeding in pools of blood, two men wrestled the gunman.</s>JOE ZAMUDIO, SHOOTING WITNESS: And I took my legs on his - behind his knees and my arm on the back on the small of his back, and another guy was stepping on his neck.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The gunman was in police custody.</s>TAMMY VO, KGUN 9 CORRESPONDENT: He is Jared Lee Loughner, 22 years old.</s>GUTIERREZ: The scene was chaotic with sheriff deputies and civilians trying to triage victims.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is anybody injured? Did you say Gabrielle Giffords was hit?</s>GUTIERREZ: The congresswoman had been shot in the head. Her intern, Daniel Hernandez, ran to her side and used his bare hands to stop the bleeding.</s>DANIEL HERNANDEZ, FORMER INTERN FOR GIFFORDS: I couldn't see an exit wound. I didn't know if there was one. All I saw was the entry wound. That's where I was applying the pressure.</s>GUTIERREZ: In the end, it was Hernandez, the paramedics and the trauma team who saved Gabrielle Giffords' life.</s>DR. PETER RHEE, MEDICAL DIRECTOR, UMC TRAUMA CENTER: Overall, this is about as good as it'll going to get. You know, when you get shot in the head and bullet goes through your brain, the chances of living are very small and the chances of you waking up and actually following commands -</s>GUTIERREZ: January 8, 2011 will be remembered as a catastrophic day. One where a year later a community has pulled together to honor the victims and survivors of the deadliest rampage in the city's history. Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Tucson, Arizona.</s>WHITFIELD: Christina Taylor Greene was just nine years old, the youngest victim of that massacre in Tucson. Her parents remember that day and their daughter on CNN's "PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT."</s>JOHN GREENE, FATHER OF CHRISTINA TAYLOR GREENE: She had a lot of qualities. She was very - very outgoing. She loved to get people together and play and things like that. And she would direct, you know, direct traffic. One day I went over to her school to visit her during lunch hour before going to recess. And I peeked around and she was - she had about eight kids around her and she was - like I saw her, she was you go this way and all the other girls go this way - you know, that's what she liked to do. She like to - she's very social, very - you know, she had - she had a competitive fire to her, too.</s>PIERS MORGAN, HOST, "PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT": On the day you were just going about your normal lives, and you get this awful call. You hear first, Roxanne, and then, John, you get a call. You must have the sense of disbelief and then you realize she's been caught up in this horrific incident. Gabrielle Giffords has been shot, presumed dead. Other people have been gunned down. What are you thinking when this is all unfurling?</s>ROXANNE GREENE, MOTHER OF CHRISTINA TAYLOR GREENE: I was thinking it was a nightmare and that I was going to wake up, so I kept on pinching myself and hoping that it wasn't real. It was that horrendous. It was horrible. And then days after that, I would go to her room and hope to find her in her room. But, you know, obviously you know that it is real and you just - day by day, you know, you just try to cope. And we have a deep faith in God so we prayed a lot and that helped us.</s>MORGAN: I interviewed Mark Kelly recently, Gabrielle Giffords' husband, a very remarkable man in many ways. And he was saying how desperate they feel for those loss of lives. And I think particularly probably because she's so young, you know, she would have been 10 in November - in September.</s>J. GREENE: In September 11th.</s>MORGAN: He was saying really, you know, it's hard to reconcile what happened. Have you been able to get to that point? I mean, you, I know, John, when you first discovered your daughter was dead, was told, did they get the person that did this?</s>J. GREENE: Yes.</s>MORGAN: And does it give you any - any kind of comfort that they had?</s>J. GREENE: It definitely did. I don't know how people say like Natalee Holloway's parents cope with - with not knowing. We knew exactly what happened to our daughter. It was tragic and, you know, we're still dealing with that today. But, again, our faith in our family and friends kind of got us through, you know, coping with - with the issues of losing a child.