Wounded Giffords’ Aide On CNN’s American Morning: “There Was No Time To React”

On CNN’s American Morning Friday, Ron Barber, an aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, described the moments when a gunman attacked his boss at a January 9 constituent meeting outside a Tucson grocery store.

“There was no time to react,” he said. “I wish there had been.”

Barber, who was shot twice and is recovering at home, recounted the horror of what happened:

“I was standing right next to her when the gunman came past on my left and raised his gun and shot the congresswoman in the head,” he said. “I don’t think I knew anything was happening until I saw him come past me and almost immediately he fired his gun and then he swept his gun around shooting as he did.”

Barber’s wife Nancy told CNN she was about to leave home to go grocery shopping that morning when the phone rang–and she almost didn’t answer it:

“I picked it up and there was a very calm voice on the other side asking, ‘Are you Nancy Barber? Ron Barber’s wife?’”

“There’s been an accident,” Nancy Barber recalled the woman on the other end saying. “Your husband’s been shot.”

Watch it here, from CNN:

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