Former Tiburon school board member injured in Arizona shooting

[Judi Lynn]

Thanks to D.U.'er Downwinder for this information:

Former Tiburon school board member injured in Arizona shooting
By Will Jason
Marin Independent Journal

Posted: 01/11/2011 09:20:58 AM PST

Susan Hileman, a former Tiburon resident who served on the Reed Union School District board, was holding hands with her 9-year-old neighbor, Christina Taylor Green, waiting to meet U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, when the gunshots rang out.

Hileman, 58, was shot three times in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday and remains hospitalized. She continues to have flashbacks: "Christina, Christina. Let's get out of here. Let's get out of here," husband Bill Hileman hears his wife scream.

He had to tell her that Christina had died.

"She's a tough, strong woman and a survivor," Bill said of his wife, who suffered gunshot wounds to the chest, abdomen and hip. She underwent surgery Tuesday and is expected to make a full recovery.

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Hileman, who moved from Tiburon to Arizona with her husband in 2006, was a close friend of 9-year-old Christina and her family. She brought the girl to meet Giffords as a way to expose her to the world of politics and government, family members said.

More:
http://www.marinij.com/tiburonbelvedere/ci_17065081

[Judi Lynn]

1. Woman who tried to save child relives shooting horror

Woman who tried to save child relives shooting horror
Husband says his wife keeps calling out, 'Christina, Christina! let's get out of here!'
By Brad Poole
Reuters
updated 1/11/2011 10:13:40 PM ET 2011-01-12T03:13:40

TUCSON, Arizona — An Arizona woman who tried to save the slain 9-year-old girl from a gunman's rage was reliving the horror from her hospital room, her husband said Tuesday.

"She's calling out ... 'Christina, Christina! let's get out of here! Let's get out of here," said Bill Hileman, whose wife, Susan, was shot three times in deadly rampage outside a Tucson supermarket.

His wife was having "flashbacks" to the shooting during moments of transition between sleep and waking, said Hileman during a news conference at Tucson's University Medical Center on Tuesday, at which the relatives of the dead and wounded joined medical staff to tell their stories.

Hileman said his wife also suffered a broken hip during Saturday's shooting. Susan Hileman had taken Christina Taylor-Green, a neighbor whom she considered a grandchild, to a political gathering to meet Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. Christina Taylor-Green was a newly elected member of the student council at Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson.

Hileman's voice wavered as he struggled to describe how he told his wife that the girl had died. He said that as soon as his wife had a tube removed, allowing her to talk, she asked about the girl.

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41026260/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/