Don't you leave me, Christina-Taylor Green. Don't you die on me

[RamboLiberal]

Around them, chaos swirled: sirens, footsteps, people yelling and trying to save the multiple victims of the Jan. 8 shooting outside a Safeway grocery store near Tucson. Susan Hileman, shot three times and bleeding, lay on the asphalt parking lot with eyes only for the young friend lying next to her.

"Don't you leave me, Christina-Taylor Green. Don't you die on me," Hileman told the little girl in her best do-as-I-say-or-you'll-be-in-trouble mom voice.

Christina-Taylor had been shot in the chest. The two lay side by side, looking into each other's eyes.

"Those eyes, those beautiful eyes," Hileman says.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/21/20110121gabrielle-giffords-shooting-victim-susan-hileman-talks-about-girls-death.html#ixzz1BhpFlhxe

I think about the pain and guilt this woman will have to endure the rest of her life probably as much as I think about the tough recovery ahead for Gabrielle Giffords.

And I know Gabby will feel great pain as well when she finds out about the other victims of this horrible tragedy

[gateley]

1. Just saw a snip of an interview with her on MSNBC - very moving. nt

[malaise]

2. Christina's death will never leave her

I feel her pain

[CTyankee]

5. It was not her fault...

[pnwmom]

7. Of course it wasn't, morally speaking. Not at all.

But her pain is in knowing that Christina was only there because she invited her. What a terrible burden to go through life with.

[CTyankee]

3. Oh, that poor haunted woman! My heart goes out to her!

My neice had a similar situation with her sister. She went into the ministry as a result of her guilt that her sister had been killed in a shooting incident where she was also scheduled to be, but backed out of to go to a party.

She and her husband are both ordained ministers of the United Methodist Church in North Carolina.

[RamboLiberal]

6. I can understand

In the past I took my neighbor's kids to movies & pizza dinners & some of the karate kids I taught to functions. Thank goodness nothing bad ever happened. I can relate to the pain this poor lady is enduring. And of course your neice.

[CTyankee]

9. Thank you, RamboLiberal. That was in 1987. But when these shootings happen

I relive the horror of that one.

I relate to this incident because I have a 9 year old granddaughter that I would gladly give my life for...

[renate]

4. oh my god. Heart--broken.

The little details, about her sweatshirt, about how they were going to have lunch and a manicure afterwards.... I can't stand it. I just can't stand it.

[ellenfl]

8. kick for later. eom