A commemoration of the Tucson Jan. 8 shooting is set for Tuesday at the main fire station downtown.
The event will mark the eighth anniversary of the attack in which six people were killed and 13 people were injured, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Killed were, from left, Christina-Taylor Green, 9; Dorothy Morris, 76; U.S. District Judge John Roll, 63; Phyllis Schneck, 79; Dorwan Stoddard, 76; and Gabe Zimmerman, 30.
The attack occurred on Tucson’s northwest side during a “Congress On Your Corner” event outside a grocery store.
Observance of the Jan. 8th tragedy is set Tuesday morning at the downtown headquarters of the Tucson Fire Department, 300 S. Fire Central Place, south of the Tucson Convention Center.
Mayor Jonathan Rothschild will ring the bell at the station at 10:10 a.m., the moment of the shooting. He'll ring the bell once for each person killed or injured.
And on Jan. 12, Beyond Tucson, which was started by family members of slain congressional aide Gabe Zimmerman, takes place. Varied activities, including outdoor and family activities, are included in the annual health and wellness programming. Visit beyond-tucson.org for more information.
And to commemorate the lives lost, a permanent memorial is in the works for Tucson’s El Presidio Park. The January 8 Memorial Foundation hopes to have the memorial completed by this time next year.
The memorial could be completed by this time next year.
In addition to telling the story of the events that took place, the memorial will “remind future generations how our community came together at an important moment in history and how we can all continue to build a better democracy through active participation and civic discourse,” a news release from the foundation says.
Last year, the foundation raised enough money to fund the construction of the project, though donations are still being accepted.
“For the past year, volunteers from Tucson’s Jan. 8 Memorial Foundation as well as experts from Pima County — which owns the land — have worked to ensure that a memorial will be built that matches the amount of money raised and the space available west of the Old Pima County Courthouse in El Presidio Park,” the release says.
The project’s design is now complete and the foundation hopes to have a contractor this spring.
Currently, the foundation is exploring ways to make the memorial educational — perhaps a mobile app, visitor booklets and “other ways to make sure that the lessons we all learned after that day will not be forgotten,” the release says.
“This will be a living memorial communicating to future generations and to people who weren’t as immediately affected as all of us.”
2011 Tucson mass shooting victims
2011 Tucson mass shooting victims
Christina-Taylor Green
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Killed: Christina-Taylor Green, age 9.
Judge John Roll
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Killed: Federal Judge John Roll, District of Arizona
Gabe Zimmerman
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Killed: Gabe Zimmerman, aide to Rep. Giffords.
Phyllis Schneck
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Killed: Phyllis Schneck
Dorothy Morris
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Killed: Dorothy Morris
Dorwan Stoddard
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Killed: Dorwan Stoddard, 76
Gabrielle Giffords
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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, pictured after treatment for a gunshot wound to the head.
Bill Badger
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Bill Badger, a retired Army National Guard colonel, was grazed by a bullet on the back of his head yet he was one of the men who tackled Jared Lee Loughner and prevented him from reloading his gun. "I'm a little more jumpy than I was before," he said. "If I hear, you know, a door slam or something, or a loud noise, why - you jump."
Ron Barber
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Ron Barber, director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' district office, sits in his Tucson office on his first day back to work in the July 5, 2011 file photo. It appears more and more like Barber will run for her seat in the special election.
Ken and Carol Dorushka
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Ken Dorushka was shot in the forearm as he shielded his wife, Carol. "I find myself watching people a little more closely than I used to. I saw a guy in the grocery store walking around with a gun on his hip, and that disturbed me tremendously."
Eric Fuller
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Eric Fuller, who was shot twice, feared he would be unable to play tennis, but he has resumed playing. However, his emotional recovery has not been so smooth. He was taken for a mental-health evaluation at Palo Verde Hospital, where he spent several days, after disrupting a town-hall-style television program in the aftermath of the shootings.
Randy Gardner
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Randy Gardner was shot through the right foot, just below the ankle, as he chatted with retiree Phyllis Schneck, who died in the shooting. "The doctors told me it was miraculous it didn't hit any bone," Gardner said.
Suzi Hileman
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Suzi Hileman touches Pima County Sheriff's Deputy Gilbert Caudillo, who helped Hileman after she was shot in the chest and right hip. "He saved my life," she said of Caudillo. "I'm only here because of that."
George Morris
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George Morris was shot in his back and lower left leg as he tried in vain to shield his wife, Dorothy, from a spray of gunfire. "This is someone I fell madly in love with when I was 16," he said. "I miss her terribly."
Mary Reed
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Mary Reed was shot in the arms and back as she shielded her 17-year-old daughter, Emma McMahon. She also suffered shrapnel wounds to the face and leg. Reed's whole family - her husband, Tom McMahon, and their two teenagers - was in line to see Giffords when gunfire erupted. "They can never forget it," Reed said. "But I'm hoping they heal."
Pam Simon
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' community outreach coordinator, Pam Simon, was shot in the chest and through the right wrist. The bullet that entered her chest lodged in her upper hip. "I am very lucky. The doctors are still scratching their heads," Simon said. "Quite miraculously, other than chipping my pelvic bone, the bullet did not damage any internal organs."
Mavanell "Mavy" Stoddard
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Mavanell "Mavy" Stoddard was shot three times in the legs. Stoddard also lost her husband, Dorwan "Dory" Stoddard, who died as he shielded Mavy from the gunfire. "I have to go to my good memories of a wonderful man and not dwell on the bad," Stoddard said.
Jim Tucker
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Jim Tucker, pictured with Giffords and his wife, Doris, moments before the shooting, was shot in the calf and the the right collarbone. The bullet that hit his collarbone split apart and lodged in various parts of his back. One fragment cracked a vertebra. The photo shows government working the way it's supposed to work, he said. "She was doing the thing she does best. She listens to constituents." Doris wasn't injured in the attack.
