Jumat, 20 Juli 2012

Denver shooting: victim Jessica Ghawi narrowly missed earlier killing

"I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday," she wrote. "I saw the terror on bystanders’ faces. I saw the victims of a senseless crime. I saw lives change. I was reminded that we don’t know when or where our time on Earth will end."

She concluded: " I know I truly understand how blessed I am for each second I am given."

Ghawi, who tweeted under the name Jessica Redfield, spent part of her final hours on Twitter describing her excitement at seeing the new Batman film and mocking a friend who had not come with her.

"Of course we're seeing Dark Knight. Redheaded Texan spitfire, people should never argue with me," she wrote.

The sports blogger, who wrote mainly about hockey, moved from Texas to Colorado around a year ago.

Her brother, Jordan, confirmed his sister was caught up in the massacre, tweeting: "It appears that my sister has been fatally wounded in a mass shooting at a movie premiere in Denver, CO".

Mr Ghawi, whose Twitter page describes him as a student and a firefighter, said in a blog post that a friend who had been with his sister was also injured in shooting.

"My sister took one round followed by an additional round which appeared to strike her in the head," he wrote.

Peter Burns, a friend of Ghawi's, said that shortly before her death she was trying to find a way to raise money for people who had lost their possessions in the recent Colorado wildfires. Ghawi insisted that she did not want her name to be associated with the charity effort, preferring to do it anonymously.

"You won't find a person who had more heart and more passion for what she did than her," Mr Burns he said.

"Anything we can do to celebrate her and lift her up, rather than the coward who did this, is a better day," he told CNN.

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