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Victims in 2011 Giffords attack see parallel to Capitol riot

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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2020, file photo, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., talks with his wife former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., and Vice President Mike Pence after participating in a re-enactment of his swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington. As a mob laid siege to the U.S. Capitol this week, former Rep. Gabby Giffords could only wait nervously for news about her husband, Mark Kelly, who was barely a month into his job as a newly elected senator from Arizona. A decade earlier it was Kelly enduring the excruciating wait for news about Giffords, who was shot in the head in an attempted assassination that, like Wednesday's siege, shocked the nation and prompted a reckoning about the state of politics and discourse in the United States. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool via AP, File)

By: AP Newsroom

Posted at 3:58 PM, Jan 08, 2021

and last updated 2021-01-08 15:58:22-05

PHOENIX (AP) — A decade ago, a gunman with paranoid schizophrenia killed six and injured 13 including Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

She was meeting with constituents in a grocery store parking lot in Tucson.

Now, some survivors say the violence at the U.S. Capitol this week has sparked painful memories and once again highlighted the bitter strife that continues to grip American politics.

In Tucson, the county is set to mark the 10-year anniversary of the attack Friday and dedicate a memorial to those slain and injured.

Giffords left Congress after the shooting.

Her husband, Mark Kelly, was elected to the U.S. Senate last year.

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Victims in 2011 Giffords attack see parallel to Capitol riot

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