Jessica Ghawi narrowly survived Toronto Mall Shooting (June 2) but killed in Colorado Shooting (July 21)
24-year-old blogger and journalist Jessica Ghawi (a.k.a. Jessica Redfield) who escaped a mass shooting in Toronto, had been fatally shot one month later during mass shooting at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises movie in Aurora, Colorado.
Her death was confirmed via Twitter by her brother, Jordan. "Coroner's office confirms that my sister @jessicaredfield has died of injuries sustained in the shooting," he wrote.
Jessica died just six weeks after narrowly surviving another mass shooting—a June 2 incident in Toronto's Eaton Centre, which left two dead and several others wounded, and became fodder for her sports blog.
Ghawi, who wrote under the name Jessica Redfield, described the "sickening feeling" she got while at Eaton moments before a gunman had opened fire there.
"This empty, almost sickening feeling won't go away," she wrote on June 5. "I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court," she wrote on her blog. "An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm‘s way. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting."
She had reportedly moved from San Antonio to Denver, where she attended the midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises with a friend.
On her blog, Ghawi had described herself as a "feisty redhead" sports journalist who was proudly "Yankee born, Texas raised, Colorado blooming."
The gunman has been identified as 24-year-old James Holmes, who was arrested at a parking lot behind the theater shortly afterward.
Her death was confirmed via Twitter by her brother, Jordan. "Coroner's office confirms that my sister @jessicaredfield has died of injuries sustained in the shooting," he wrote.
Jessica died just six weeks after narrowly surviving another mass shooting—a June 2 incident in Toronto's Eaton Centre, which left two dead and several others wounded, and became fodder for her sports blog.
Ghawi, who wrote under the name Jessica Redfield, described the "sickening feeling" she got while at Eaton moments before a gunman had opened fire there.
"This empty, almost sickening feeling won't go away," she wrote on June 5. "I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court," she wrote on her blog. "An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm‘s way. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting."
She had reportedly moved from San Antonio to Denver, where she attended the midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises with a friend.
On her blog, Ghawi had described herself as a "feisty redhead" sports journalist who was proudly "Yankee born, Texas raised, Colorado blooming."
The gunman has been identified as 24-year-old James Holmes, who was arrested at a parking lot behind the theater shortly afterward.
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