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Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in the head Saturday during a public event in a grocery store in Tucson, her spokesman, CJ Karamargin said. Others at the event, including members of its staff were among the wounded.

His condition was unknown. She was taken to University Medical Center in Tucson, the trauma center for the region, about 10 miles. Even if NPR and CNN reported that she had been killed, Darci Slater, a spokesman for the hospital, said that Ms. Giffords was in surgery.

CNN quoted an information officer for the sheriff's office saying that 12 people were injured in everything and that the shooting had occurred about 10 am local time.

Dr. Steven Rayle, a former emergency room physician who now works in a hospice, said he had witnessed the shooting. He said the congressman was standing behind a table outside the Safeway passers home when the gunman approached her from behind, pointed a gun at a foot of his head and began to shoot.

. "He must have gone down 20 laps," he said. Ms. Giffords dropped to staff on the ground and rushed to his aid, the doctor said Rayle.

Mr. Rayle said he performed CPR on some of the victims. He said one victim was a young child and seemed to be in critical condition with a gunshot wound.

He said that one of the staff approached the gunman and that he and others helped arrest the suspect. The doctor described the killer as a white male in his mid 20s with short hair and "dressed in a shabby way."

An employee in a convenience store told CNN he had heard a steady stream of shots that seem sustained and "random". Shortly after, emergency vehicles filled the parking lot around the store and cordoned off the area.

The shooting occurred in a Safeway supermarket northwest of Tucson that Ms. Giffords host an event called "Congress on your corner, to allow members of the 8th Congressional District to meet with her individually. She has organized several protests since taking office in January 2007. At one such event in 2009, a demonstrator was removed by police when his gun fell to the floor supermarket.

Last March, his office was vandalized Tucson a few hours after the House vote overhaul of national health care, authorities said. Earlier events in Tucson, Oro Valley, Green Valley, Sierra Vista and Douglas had attracted between 75 and 150 people, according to a news release announcing the event. It was his first event since his reelection for a third term in November.

Ms. Giffords, 40, was interviewed on Fox News on Friday to discuss a bill to reduce the wages of Congress than 5 percent.