Safeway surveillance videos clearly show accused gunman Jared Loughner shooting congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the face from less than three feet away, then shooting and killing U.S. District Judge John Roll in the chest, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The video, reviewed by two unnamed Post sources, also shows Roll apparently trying to offer assistance to Ron Barber, who was wounded, by trying to push him to the ground and get on top of him.
Law enforcement has obtained about two dozen surveillance videos from the scene of the shooting spree on Jan. 8 that killed six people and wounded 13, the Post reported.
The videos are expected to be used as evidence in court against Loughner, who is facing murder and attempted assassination charges.
Meanwhile, Susan Hileman, who took her 9-year-old neighbor Christina-Taylor Green to the political gathering where Green was fatally shot, was released from the hospital after recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, NBC News reported.
George Morris, a retired airline pilot who lost his wife of more than 50 years in the attack, was expected to be released on Wednesday.
Nearby, the man who touched off much of the debate over the tone in politics, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, has been getting so much hate mail that his office's computer system nearly crashed, according to The Associated Press. Workers shut down the e-mail system temporarily, though it is now back up.
Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jason Ogan could not confirm the outage or the volume of hate e-mails to msnbc.com on Tuesday.
Dupnik blamed a toxic political environment for the attack, drawing criticism from opponents who said he made a rush to judgment. Investigators have since said that 22-year-old Loughner is mentally unstable and was not apparently motivated by a partisan politics. He's locked up in a federal jail as investigators try to figure out what prompted him to open fire at the Giffords' event.
Ten days after the attack, a steady stream of people visited the memorials at the Tucson congressional office where Giffords worked, and at the hospital where she remained hospitalized in serious condition Tuesday. Doctors said she continues to improve physically and neurologically.
Workers are recording the names, contact information and messages in each card to document them and send thank you notes later. The cards will be given to Giffords when she is able to read them, Kimble said.
Five of them were focused on opening the estimated 10,000 cards left at makeshift memorials that have grown exponentially over the past week. Others took complaints from constituents whose homes have been foreclosed on and whose Social Security benefits have run out.
