Tucson Shooting Victim Remembers The Heartache: “Christina, Don’t You Die On Me”

(By Mark Joyella, Mediaite) - The woman who escorted nine-year old victim Christina Taylor Green to see Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has sat down with NBC’s Brian Williams to tell the horrific story of the shootings and the death of Christina.

Speaking to Williams in Tucson, Suzi Hileman shares her memory of looking down at the wounded girl, trying to keep her alive until help could get there. “And I’m yelling at her, ‘Christina Taylor Green, don’t you die on me.’”

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And she’s looking at me, and it was, she was wondering, she was confused, she was asking me, “What is going on?” And I’m just telling her to “Stay with me, do not leave me here by myself, young lady.”