Giffords Shooting: 9-Year-Old Victim Was a 9/11 Baby, a 'Face of Hope': "Christina Green was on the student council of her elementary school, so on Saturday her mother's friend thought she might enjoy seeing government in action - the local congresswoman meeting with constituents outside a supermarket near Christina's home.
'I allowed her to go, thinking it would be an innocent thing,' said the girl's mother, Roxanna Green, 45.
It did not turn out that way. A gunman shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords, leaving her unconscious and in critical condition, and his fusillade killed six others, including Christina, a 9-year-old who loved animals and volunteered at a children's charity.
She was special from birth because she was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and she was proud of it, her mother said, because it lent a grace note of hope to that terrible day."
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