The game was played two days after the 2011 Tucson shooting, an attempted assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, that took the lives of several others, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl.
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Before the match a moment of silence was held for the victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona two days before the game in which US Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and 6 others, including Federal Judge John Roll, were killed.
The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and the murders of chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, John Roll, and five other people on January 8, 2011, occurred at a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes.
In 2011, Zaslow collaborated with Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, on their memoir, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.
In January 2011, after the attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords (see 2011 Tucson shooting ), KXXT National Talk Show Host Steve Sanchez of The Steve Sanchez Show offered 30 minutes of airtime to Westboro Baptist Church in exchange for the Church agreeing not to protest at the funeral of 9 year old Christina Green who was killed during the assassination attempt.
:* Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) underwent rehabilitation at this location in 2011.
Gabrielle Giffords | Gabrielle | Gabrielle Roy | Gabrielle Walcott | Gabrielle Réjane | Gabrielle (moon) | Gabrielle Leithaug | Gabrielle Christian | Gabrielle Beaumont | Gabrielle Aplin | Antoinette Gabrielle Danton | Monique Gabrielle | Gabrielle (Xena) | Gabrielle Union | Gabrielle Roth | Gabrielle Richens | Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion | Gabrielle Krauss | Gabrielle Glaister | Gabrielle Fitzpatrick | Gabrielle d'Estrées | Gabrielle Carteris | Gabrielle Anwar | Gabrielle (2013 film) |
On January 3, 2006 she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate by the Pima County Board of Supervisors, following the resignation of Gabrielle Giffords, who stepped down to run for the United States House of Representatives.
Notable alumnae include class of 1999's Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, and class of 2003's Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY.