9-year-old shooting victim was the granddaughter of famed baseball pitcher and manager Dallas Green

[The Straight Story]

Phillies: Girl killed in AZ melee Green's grandkid



PHILADELPHIA - The 9-year-old girl killed by a gunman who opened fire at an Arizona congresswoman's event is the granddaughter of former manager Dallas Green, The Philadelphia Phillies said Sunday.

Christina-Taylor Green was shot outside a Tucson grocery story when she went to see Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was meeting with constituents there. Giffords was among 13 people wounded in the melee that killed six people, including Arizona's chief federal judge and an aide for the Democratic lawmaker.

"The Phillies organization expresses our heartfelt condolences to Dallas and Sylvia and the entire Green family on the senseless, tragic loss of Christina's life," team president David Montgomery said. "She was a talented young girl with a bright promising future. Her untimely death weighs heavily on our hearts. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the families affected by yesterday's horrific shooting."

An uncle of the 9-year-old girl tells the Arizona Republic that a neighbor was going to the event and invited her along because she had just been elected to the student council and was interested in government.

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20110109_ap_philliesgirlkilledinazmeleegreensgrandkid.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. The neighbor was shot four times

and will feel guilty about taking her for the rest of their life.......... that is also sad

[madmax]

2. Little Christina maybe the catalyst of change

more so than anyone else. She is by so many 'coincidences' someone who will tug at the heart strings and perhaps the brain cells of so many.

'And a little child shall lead them...' And I'm agnostic.

[sharesunited]

4. When access to guns is involved, hearts and brains don't rule the day.

It is the spleen which controls.

[efhmc]

3. Killing children that are interested in how their country is

run is a perfect reflection of the hatred of these people: righters, beck, palin , limbaugh, teabaggers, fox, etc. for the people and ideas of this country. May her creator rest her soul and comfort her family and our nation,