John Roll
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Oct 15, 2026
Jared Lee Loughner: The Tucson Shooting
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30:41speaker_0NARRATOR
As the frenzied attack continued, Loughner turned his gun on the then district director, Ron Barber.
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30:48speaker_0NARRATOR
Another attendee, Judge John Roll, leapt in between the two in a moment of sheer bravery.
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30:55speaker_16SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, John Roll pushed him on the table, jumped on top of him, and took a fatal, fatal wound in the back.
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31:01speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I walked out and the first body that I came to was Judge John Roll.
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31:09speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I couldn't tell where he was shot, and I kept asking, there were s- a few people crawling around, "Where is he shot? Where is he shot?" I just started doing CPR.
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31:20speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was futile.
8 MINS LATER
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38:54Sally BadgerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's B- that's how Bill's made.
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39:00speaker_0NARRATOR
Along with the young child, five adults were also victims of the brutal spree.
Gabby Giffords Survived a Mass Shooting. Now She's Fighting to Flip Congress| The Joy Reid Show
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2:37Joy ReidHOST
And there it is, four years into representing Arizona's 8th Congressional District as she was hosting a Meet Your Congresswoman event in a supermarket parking lot in the Tucson area on January 8, 2011, when she and 18 and others were shot by a mass shooter.
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2:55Joy ReidHOST
Six people were killed, including federal district court chief judge John Roll, Gabe Zimmerman, one of Giffords' staffers, and a nine-year-old girl, Christina Taylor Green.
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3:07Joy ReidHOST
Giffords was shot, as you just heard, at point-blank range in the head before the shooter opened fire on the others.
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3:14Joy ReidHOST
It was the beginning of more than a decade of recovery.