Shooting survivor shares story, remembers Christina Taylor Green

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TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - Suzi Hileman was released from University Medical Center last week. But when she returned Tuesday for a follow-up visit with doctors, she couldn't help but notice the tremendous show of support for the victims.

Literally thousands of flowers, pictures and cards take up most of the hospital's front lawn. Hileman says the memorial is so representative of Tucson and how this community responds to tragedy. Hileman should know; she was in the middle of Tucson's worst tragedy just 18 days ago.

"We're not focusing on the horror, on the tragedy," Hileman tells KOLD News 13 from her Tucson home. "We're looking at the sad, at the loss and at the pulling together and moving forward."

In so many ways, that is how Hileman is dealing with the events of Jan. 8. The day she brought Christina Taylor-Green, a 9 year old girl and close family friend, to see Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

"That happened to us. That's not something we that we did," says Hileman, who suffered three gunshot wounds herself that day. "Someone decided to rain on our parade."

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