Aurora shooting: sportswriter Jessica Ghawi becomes first named victim
by Adam Gabbatt and Katie Rogers, guardian.co.ukJuly 20th 2012
Jessica Ghawi, 24, is the first to be named of those slain during a late-night showing of The Dark Knight Rises in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado. Ghawi, who wrote under the pen name Jessica Redfield, was a Denver-based blogger who covered hockey.
KSAT news in Ghawi's hometown of San Antonio reported Friday morning Ghawi's parents had confirmed the death. The news station said Ghawi had recently moved from San Antonio to Denver.
The Denver sports station where Ghawi worked tweeted Friday morning that Ghawi had been killed.
We're sad to report @JessicaRedfield, an intern for The Fan, was 1 of those killed in the theater shooting. Our prayers are w/her family.
— 104.3 The FAN (@1043TheFan)
Among several friends tweeting about her was Jesse Spector, a New York-based sports writer, tweeted Friday morning that "the world is much worse off without her."
It appears this was the second shooting Ghawi – who friends said went by the name of Jessica Redfield on social media – had experienced in recent months. On a blog which friends and colleagues linked to, Jessica Redfield described being "in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court"
"I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. 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. When or where we will breathe our last breath. For one man, it was in the middle of a busy food court on a Saturday evening."
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