Wounded Giffords aide makes emotional return to work
An aide to Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords made an emotional return to work on Tuesday, nearly six months after he was seriously wounded in the Tucson shooting rampage.
District director Ron Barber, 65, was shot in the cheek and thigh during the January 8 spree that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Giffords, who is recovering.
Staff and interns gathered at Giffords’ congressional office in Tucson, and greeted Barber with balloons, a banner that read “welcome back” and a carrot cake with his name spelled out in blueberries as he walked through the door.