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New photos, video of 2011 Giffords shooting released by FBI

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — New next few minutes drinking
photos and video released water while walking up and
by the FBI show the behav- down the store aisles.
ior of a lone gunman just Using a semi-automatic
minutes before he carried Glock 19, Loughner went
out the 2011 Tucson shoot- on to fire a barrage of bul-
ing that left six people lets at the crowd waiting
dead and 13 others injured, to meet Giffords before he
including former U.S. Rep. was tackled by bystanders.
Gabby Giffords. Hundreds Among those killed were
of images as well as sur- 9-year-old Christina-Taylor
veillance video from the Green, U.S. District Court
day of the deadly massa- Judge John Roll, 63, and
cre were released to the Giffords' aide Gabe Zim-
public Wednesday, includ- merman, 30. Also slain were
ing photos of Pima County Dorwan Stoddard and Dor-
Sheriff's deputies restraining othy Morris, both 76, and
gunman Jared Lee Lough- Phyllis Schneck, 79.
ner on the ground following The shooting left Giffords,
the shooting. In the photos, who was shot in the head,
the deputies' faces are partially paralyzed. It also
blacked out and Loughner spurred her and husband
is on his stomach with his In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, file photo, former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, of Arizona, who sur- Mark Kelly to form a gun
hands cuffed behind him. A vived an assassination attempt in 2011, joins other Democrats in a call for action on gun safety safety advocacy group.
pair of glasses and a note- legislation on the House steps at the Capitol in Washington. Loughner was sentenced
book are on the ground Associated Press to life in prison in 2012. He is
next to him. Giffords was incarcerated at the Roch-
holding a meet-and-greet knife and ammunition, took and a black, knitted hat ner goes to the customer ester Federal Medical Cen-
outside a Safeway super- a cab to the event. — walking into the store service counter before go- ter, a prison in Minnesota
market the morning of Jan. Surveillance videos show about six minutes before ing to buy a bottle of water. that specializes in care for
8. According to authorities, Loughner — wearing pants, the meeting was slated to The remaining videos show physically ailing or mentally
Loughner, carrying a pistol, a gray sweatshirt, glasses start. In the videos, Lough- Loughner spending the ill inmates.q

Ex-Tennessee teacher who took teen across U.S. pleads guilty

hunt last year after he fled stroying his and his former first had intercourse after abled his vehicle's GPS sys-
with a 15-year-old student student's cellphone when he took her out of state, ac- tem, used aliases, altered
broke down in court Thurs- he fled with her. He will be cording to authorities. his appearance, paid only
day after pleading guilty to sentenced later this year. Cummins was married at in cash and used back
crossing state lines to have The victim was in court, but the time and is a father roads during his nearly six
sex with a minor. did not speak afterward, and grandfather. Since he weeks on the run, accord-
Former forensics teacher but a spokesman for U.S. was jailed, he has called his ing to court documents.
Tad Cummings, 51, also Attorney Donald Cochran wife — who filed for divorce Authorities credit the care-
pleaded guilty Thursday to said that prosecutors were after he disappeared — to taker of the remote north-
obstruction of justice be- relieved on her behalf. ask for forgiveness, Assis- ern California property for
fore U.S. District Judge Ale- "This decision today to tant U.S. Attorney Sara Beth helping police find the girl
ta Trauger in federal court plead guilty pleases us in Myers told the court. and arrest her alleged ab-
in Nashville. the fact that at this point Cummins disappeared with ductor. The girl was found
"I cannot be the man I the victim will no longer the girl last March. They safe.
This April 20, 2017, file pho- need to be and not tell the have to face a lengthy trial were found in April at a re- Cummins taught at Culleo-
to released by the Siskiyou truth," he said before losing and can go about her life," mote forest cabin near Ce- ka Unit School in Culleoka,
County Sheriff's Office shows
Tad Cummins. his composure and starting spokesman David Boling cilville, California, following south of Nashville. He was
Associated Press to weep. said afterwards. a tip to police. fired a day after the Ten-
Cummins faces a manda- A federal prosecutor told Cummins had planned to nessee Bureau of Investiga-
By SHEILA BURKE tory minimum of 10 years the court that Cummins take the girl to Mexico and tion issued an Amber Alert
Associated Press in prison for crossing state engaged in sexual activity took a kayak from San Di- about the teen. The Ten-
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lines for sex with a minor. He with the girl several times ego on a test run, the pros- nessee Board of Education
Tennessee teacher who also faces up to 20 years for in a classroom closet at ecutor said. He switched revoked Cummins' teach-
set off a nationwide man- obstruction of justice for de- school and in a car. They license plates twice, dis- ing license in July.q