Watch now: January 8 Memorial in Tucson
The January 8 Memorial, "The Embrace", will open on the anniversary of the mass shooting in 2011 to commemorate the 19 victims. The memorial is on the west side of the Old Pima County Courthouse in El Presidio Park. Video by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star 2020
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Tucson's January 8th Memorial will be dedicated Friday in a small ceremony that will be closed to the public because of the pandemic. The memorial might not open to the public for another month.
It’s been 10 years.
Tucson and Arizona found ways to try to intervene with people who might be dangerous, or simply in mental-health crisis, after the attack on an event held by then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. But efforts to reform gun laws have failed.
