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"Witnesses To AZ Shooting Told Investigators Someone Else Was Working With Shooter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vpWvvy9Eo


Cops Hunt Second Man Believed to Be Involved in Congresswoman Giffords Shooting

"We are not convinced that [the gunman in custody] acted alone, there is some reason to believe he came to this location with another individual, and that individual is involved," Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said.

Dupnik declined to provide more information on the second individual who he would only describe as "white" and "in his 50s." Authorities have photographs of the person of interest and are "actively pursuing him," the sheriff said.

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US gunman may not have acted alone

The Arizona sheriff helping investigate the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and others says the gunman may not have acted alone.

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said at a news conference in Tucson on Saturday that authorities may have a photo of another suspect.

Dupnik says officials believe a suspect in custody may have come to the grocery store parking lot with another person, and that person was in some way involved.

Dupnik would offer no other information.

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Dead Bodies Still Laying In Safeway Parking Lot Hours After Arizona Shooting Incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9OXF-5GDc0


Jared Lee Loughner youtube channel ???
https://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10

Injured rushed from AZ shooting scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18vscHZpMNs

Gunman arrested 2nd Sought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts6asLKY638

Eyewitness to Giffords Shooting: 'Heard About 15 Shots'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vwfy-0Gv0o

Raw Video: Aftermath of Tucson Shooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrWvkCTQSI4

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Giffords was the target, gunman may not have acted alone, per AP: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_congresswoman_shot
"People that were there were just sitting ducks," Rayle said. "I don't think he was even aiming. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/01/witness-he-was-just-fir...

Judge Roll Was Under Marshal Protection After Prior Threats
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/judge-john-roll-dead-kille...

The weapon used was a pistol with an extended magazine, according to Kastigar.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/136783-rep-giffords-shot-as-gunma...


Profile of Jared Loughner: ‘I can't trust the current government’ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40980334/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/


"Witnesses To AZ Shooting Told Investigators Someone Else Was Working With Shooter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vpWvvy9Eo

Rayle helped hold the gunman down while waiting for the sheriff to arrive, about 15-to-20 minutes later. The EMS came about 30 minutes later. Rayle said he was "stunned" by how long it took medical help to arrive.*http://gawker.com/5728501/arizona-congresswoman-shot-outside-grocer...


Jared Loughner, the alleged Giffords shooter, in a YouTube video


The title: "America: Your Last Memory In A Terrorist Country!"



Seven minutes. The profile for the poster is listed as follows: Name: Jared Lee Loughner
Channel Views: 271
Joined: October 25, 2010
Website: http://Myspace.com/fallenasleep

My name is Jared Lee Loughner!
Hometown: Tucson
Country: United States
Schools: I attended school: Thornydale elementary,Tortolita Middle School, Mountain View Highschool, Northwest Aztec Middle College, and Pima Community College.





At least this looks like the yearbook picture:





"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," the sheriff said. "And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."

-Pima County Sheriff
http://www.kpho.com/news/26411701/detail.html






Bizarre background on shooting suspect
Posted: Jan 08, 2011 5:40 PM Updated: Jan 08, 2011 6:23 PM

9 On Your Side is learning more about shooting suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, and what may have gone through his mind before the shooting.

Reporter: Tammy Vo

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV9) - Jared Lee Loughner's photos paint the picture of a young, seemingly innocent man. But authorities say, he pulled the trigger several times over on Saturday morning shooting nineteen people. Six of them died. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told reporters Saturday night "he has mental issues".

The 22 year old was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, and hasn't been seen publicly since.

9 On Your Side spoke with a 21 year old woman who went to school with Loughner in middle school and high school. She said, "When I knew him he was odd. Not psychopath, just odd. Most kids at 12, 13, 24 are weird. He was odd, but not that weird."

She went on to say, "When I heard it was him that did it, it was shocking. He never said creepy, psychopathic things. He would listen to hard core, heavy metal music. But when I knew him he wasn't like crazy our anything. Just odd. It was kind of we rid to see this transformation from someone who is like a little bit odd, to like, crazy, 'I'm going to kill a bunch of people."

Loughner as posted some bizarre videos on his YouTube channel. The most controversial video shows someone in a mask lighting an American flag on fire. It's titled "America: your last memory in a terrorist country".

On December 15, 2010, Loughner posted another video online. He writes:

"My favorite activity is conscience dreaming"

"Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency".

"My hope is for you to be literate. If you're literate in English grammar then you comprehend English grammar. The majority of people who reside in District 8 are illiterate. Hilarious."

"If I have my civil rights then this message wouldn't have to happen."

"In conclusion, my ambition is for informing literate dreamers about a new currency... in a few days, you'll know I'm conscience dreaming."

At this point, no official word on Loughner's motives have been released. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told reporters at a news conference Saturday night that Loughner has a criminal history and that campus officials at Pima Community College had difficulties with him on campus.

What appears to be Loughner's myspace page was captured by website Good Politics before it was deleted. In one of the last messages left this morning, he wrote "Goodbye friends. Please don't be mad at me. The literacy rate is below 5%. I haven't talked to one person who is literate. I want to make it out alive. The longest war in the history of the United States. Goodbye. I'm saddened with the current currency and job employment. I had a bully at school. Thank you. P.S. --plead the fifth!"

Loughner went to Tortolita Middle School in Marana. A district spokesperson says that Loughner spent his freshman through junior years at Mountain View High School. Then, he withdrew from school before his senior year. Loughner says online that he's a student at Pima Community College and that he's a military recruit for the Army in Phoenix.

According to online court records, Loughner went to count in 2007 for possession of drug paraphernalia charges.

http://www.kgun9.com/global/story.asp?s=13809065


raw video of the aftermath in Tuscon following the mass shooting http://snardfarker.ning.com/page/raw-video-of-the-aftermath-in




Sheriff: Giffords shooter has 'mental issues'
Posted: Jan 08, 2011 6:52 PM Updated: Jan 08, 2011 6:54 PM

Reporter: Sheryl Kornman

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said the man who shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others Saturday morning has 'mental issues." He also said he has a criminal history.

Dupnik said in a news conference at 6 p.m. at the Westward Look Resort that the shooter was tackled by two people. He had already struck 19 people, including one child, a federal judge and members of Giffords' staff.

Giffords was at her first official congressional event of the new year at a Safeway store in the shopping center at Ina and Oracle roads at 10 a.m. when she was shot in the head "through and through," a University Medical Center surgeon said.

That means the bullet did not lodge inside her head. She is in critical condition and the surgeon said he is optimistic that she will recover.

Dupnik said this is "a day of personal sadness for many of us in this room."

He said the shooting began shortly after 10 a.m. at a town hall type of meeting at the shopping center.

Dupnik said five people were killed. Deputies said they are still working on "next of kin notification" at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and they did not release the names of any of the other victims, other than U.S. District Court Judge John Roll.

Roll was among the five killed at the scene.

Dupnik said Roll had gone to morning Mass downtown and just stopped by Giffords' event. He had intended to go home and "do the floors, which he did every week," Dupnik said, after church.

"Unfortunately he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was one of the finest human beings I have ever known in my life," Dupnik said.


Dupnik said Giffords was one of the "nicest human beings ever put on this earth.
She cares about the United States of America. I hope all Americans are as saddened and shocked as I am and I hope they are as angry as I am," Dupnik said.

"It's time to do a little soul searching about the rhetoric we hear on the radio, how are children are being raised," the sheriff said.

"We have become the mecca for racism and bigotry."

http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13809326

A press conference on today’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been scheduled for 3:45 p.m. EST / 1:45 p.m. CST.

A federal judge from Arizona was among the 11 others shot, and it’s also believed that one of Giffords aides was killed in the assault. In all, 5 people are confirmed dead and 6 have been injured.

The suspect is believed to be a while male and born in 1988, although he has not been named.

We’ll update Blippitt when we have more. In the meantime, you can watch the press conference via streaming video below.

UPDATE: Shooter ID’d as Jared Loughner, U.S. judge and 9-year-old girl dead

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