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Mother of deceased 9-year-old: ‘Stop the hatred’

Laura Donovan Contributor
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Roxanna Green, the mother of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green who was shot dead at a Tucson, Ariz. event Saturday, has pleaded with the country to “stop the violence, stop the hatred,” according to an MSNBC interview that aired Sunday morning.

“I just want her memory to live on, she’s a face of hope, a face of change,” Roxanna said of her young daughter, who had the eerie coincidence of being born on September 11, 2001. Christina-Taylor was also featured in a book called “Faces of Hope” that lists fifty children born on the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Christina-Taylor Green, the youngest of the six victims killed at Saturday’s “Congress on Your Corner” shooting that also resulted in many serious injuries, including Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords being shot in the head, was interested in politics and dancing as well as meeting Congresswoman Giffords on that Saturday afternoon.

Greg Segalini, an uncle of Christina-Taylor, told the Arizona Republic that a neighbor was going to the “Congress on Your Corner” event and invited her to join because she had just been elected to the student council.

“It’s so tragic,” Roxanna Green told the Arizona Daily Star.  “She went to learn today and then someone with so much hatred in their heart took the lives of innocent people.”

The alleged 22-year-old gunman, Jared Loughner, is currently in custody.