Usually on Saturday mornings, District of Arizona Chief Judge John Roll, 63, would go to Mass, then return home to vacuum the carpet and mop the floors for his wife, Maureen.
On Saturday, Jan. 8, Roll went to Mass, as usual, and then just before 10 a.m., he stopped by a local Safeway grocery store to greet Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was holding an event for constituents there. She had pushed for Roll's district to be declared a judicial emergency because of its heavy caseload. But as he stood near the congresswoman outside the store, a gunman walked up and shot Giffords through the head at close range. Then the gunman turned on the crowd with his semiautomatic, sending bullets into bodies, windows, and bottles of 7-Up inside the store.
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