[KansasGirl]

Can someone point me to an article that discusses the other victims of the psychopath? Was there a conservative federal judge killed? How do they know he wasn’t the target? I hope other conservative judges have good security.

[petitfour]

I don’t know where I read or heard that the judge was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. (I think my husband told me, and I don’t know if he heard it or read it.) The judge goes to Mass every day. He usually goes downtown to Mass. He was running late yesterday and went to Mass at a church near where the shooting occurred. He stopped at Safeway to see his good friend, Gabby Giffords, when he saw the sign for the event. It was a coincidence that he showed up and was killed.

[Hoodat]

The judge was not scheduled to be there but just happened to be passing by. The fact that Congresswoman Giffords happened to be the first person shot indicates that she was the target. Once she had been shot, the shooter then shot randomly into a crowd, not taking time to aim at anyone in particular.

Having said that, it is important to keep focused here. The seriousness of this tragedy has nothing to do with a conservative federal judge being shot and killed, but that a Democrat politician was shot. If the judge had been the target and the congresswoman had not been shot, we wouldn't have had an appearance and statement by Obama for days (unless he wanted to give a shout-out to someone).

[rwa265]

“Can someone point me to an article that discusses the other victims of the psychopath? Was there a conservative federal judge killed? How do they know he wasn’t the target?”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/palin-target-graphic-in-perspective/

Go to link and see the second comment, by jwest, who points out that the judge was the first person to be shot, and could possibly have been the primary target.

[Marine_Uncle]

I don’t think the federal judge killed was conservative. He just happened to have stopped by the gathering after attending a church service. And like a few other folks where in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[newzjunkey]

The Federal Judge was a GHW Bush appointee. He was there only because he’d been in the area and stopped by to say “hi” after mass.

One aide, a director of local outreach, was killed and a 9 yo old girl born on 9/11/01. Details of the other three have not been released.

[hennie pennie]

This has been explained many times by the judge’s family. He had gone to mass at a Catholic Church VERY close to the Safeway supermarket, and on the way back from services, he spontaneously decided to stop at Gabby’s ‘Meet-n-Greet.’

[newzjunkey]

WA Post has more released details on the other identified victims.

[Kaslin]

Yes there was. Judge Roll was appointed in 1991 by President George H. Walker Bush