Christina-Taylor Green, the nine-year-old killed Saturday along with five other people at an Arizona political event, was drawn to politics from the awareness she was born on Sept. 11, 2001, her parents said.
"She was born back east, and Sept. 11 affected everyone there, and Christina-Taylor was always very aware of it. She was very patriotic and wearing red, white and blue was really special to her," Roxanne Green told the Arizona Daily Star. "She was born on 9/11, the day the towers came down in New York City," her father John Green told Fox News on Sunday.
The dark-haired, brown-eyed third-grader was one of 50 babies born on that date featured in a book called "Faces of Hope." She had gone to the Tucson strip mall with a neighbor on Saturday to meet congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was still in critical condition Sunday after being shot through the head, according to the newspaper.
Christina-Taylor died in hospital after the shooting. Her neighbor, identified by the girl's father as Susy Almond, was shot four times and recovering from surgery at Tucson's University Medical Center, the daily said.
Six people were killed, including a federal judge, and 14 were wounded in the shooting spree, in which 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner was charged Sunday. No stranger to fame, Christina-Taylor's grandfather Dallas Green was a major league baseball pitcher who managed the Philadelphia Phillies when they won the 1980 World Series.
"She was born back east, and Sept. 11 affected everyone there, and Christina-Taylor was always very aware of it. She was very patriotic and wearing red, white and blue was really special to her," Roxanne Green told the Arizona Daily Star. "She was born on 9/11, the day the towers came down in New York City," her father John Green told Fox News on Sunday.
The dark-haired, brown-eyed third-grader was one of 50 babies born on that date featured in a book called "Faces of Hope." She had gone to the Tucson strip mall with a neighbor on Saturday to meet congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was still in critical condition Sunday after being shot through the head, according to the newspaper.
Christina-Taylor died in hospital after the shooting. Her neighbor, identified by the girl's father as Susy Almond, was shot four times and recovering from surgery at Tucson's University Medical Center, the daily said.
Six people were killed, including a federal judge, and 14 were wounded in the shooting spree, in which 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner was charged Sunday. No stranger to fame, Christina-Taylor's grandfather Dallas Green was a major league baseball pitcher who managed the Philadelphia Phillies when they won the 1980 World Series.
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