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Morning Cup of Murder

The 2011 Tucson AZ Mass Shooting - September 10 2025

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

September 10th: Jared Lee Loughner Born (1988) You never know what can trigger a person. What can turn them into a monster. On September 10th 1988 a man was born who would go on to commit a devastating shooting. One that, even today, the motivation isn’t quite clear and the triggering moment remains a bit of a mystery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Lee_Loughner, https://tucson.com/news/local/2011-tucson-mass-shooting-victims/collection_859a2d50-a92c-11e0-b122-001cc4c002e0.html, https://www.kvoa.com/news/remembering-the-victims-killed-in-2011-mass-shooting-in-tucson-11-years-later/article_1e1c452a-6fee-11ec-850b-b7b4e7e1ff91.html, https://www.kold.com/2022/01/07/reflecting-january-8th-tucson-shooting-11-years-later/, https://www.cbsnews.com/tucson-tragedy/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.9

You never know what can trigger a person, what can turn them into a monster.

0:20.2

On September 10th, 1988, a man was born who would go on

0:23.8

to commit a devastating shooting. One that even today, the motivation isn't quite clear, and the

0:30.7

triggering moment remains a bit of a mystery. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

0:40.8

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:49.7

On January 8, 2011, at 10.10 a.m., a United States representative from Arizona named Gabrielle Giffords was standing in front of a Safeway supermarket in La Toscana Village Mall, just north of Tucson,

0:56.2

when a bullet was sent careening towards her head.

1:00.2

At the time, she was holding a constituent meeting that they called Congress in Your Corner,

1:06.1

and set up at a table, was surrounded by 20 to 30 different people.

1:11.7

On the store's security footage, which has never been released to the public but has been

1:16.1

described in the media, the shooter armed with a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol with four

1:22.7

magazines capable of holding a total of 33 rounds, walked straight towards his target, Gabrielle Giffords,

1:30.1

and pulled out his weapon. A nearby store employee claimed he heard, quote, 15 to 20 gunshots.

1:37.4

The gunman stopped to reload, but the magazine then fell from his pocket.

1:42.1

That's when a bystander named Patricia Mesh, thinking incredibly quickly, snatched it up,

1:47.8

while another Roger Salzgeber, bravely clubbed the shooter on the back of the head with a folding

1:53.4

chair.

1:54.8

Bill Badger, a 74-year-old retired United States Air Colonel, who had been shot himself, then tackled the assailant,

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