Family, friends remember victims killed in Tucson

TUCSON, AZ - Family and friends of the six people killed in Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson spent much of Sunday saying goodbye.

At the Church of Christ there were hugs and heartbreak. Dorwan and Mavy Stoddard have been members of the church for 15 years. Dorwan is credited with covering his wife during the shooting. He was killed, she was wounded.

"We are in the business of forgiving not blaming," said Minister Michael Nowak. "We need to not get caught up in hate."

At St. Odelia's Catholic Church a few blocks from the crime scene, they remembered the youngest victim, Christina Green .

The 9-year-old used to sing in the children's choir and took her first communion there.

"No one deserved what happened to them yesterday," said one parishioner.

BJ Offutt was in New Jersey when she got the news her mother Phyllis Schneck was dead. She left behind her beloved puzzles and her daughter, BJ, to pick up the pieces.

When asked what she will miss most about her mother, Offutt said, "everything."

Gabriel Zimmerman, 30, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' director of community outreach, is described as a young man with an old soul who was passionate about politics, underprivileged children, and his new fiance. His mother called this a reminder that life can change in an instant.

A friend of victim Dorothy Morris called her a compassionate and warm wife, mother and grandmother, going on to say, "We all loved her."

And at Saint's Peter and Paul church, right across the street from the hospital where the other shooting victims are recovering, Judge John Roll was remembered.

"It was a quiet service," said one man. "Just a message that we must go on."