US: Shooting victim held after outburst

A MAN wounded in the Arizona shootings in which six people died and a Congresswoman critically injured was arrested and taken for psychiatric tests after an outburst at a town hall meeting at which he took a picture of a conservative activist and yelled "you're dead," authorities said yesterday.

James Eric Fuller, 63, was held on disorderly conduct and threatening behaviour charges during the event, which was being taped for an American television network.

Fuller apparently became upset when Trent Humphries, a local leader of the conservative Tea Party movement, suggested that conversations about gun control be delayed until all the dead were buried. Authorities said he took a picture of Mr Humphries and yelled "you're dead". Pima County sheriff's spokesman, Jason Ogan, said it was decided Fuller needed a mental health evaluation, which would determine when he will be released.

Fuller, who said he was hit in the knee and back, was one of 19 people shot outside a supermarket in Tucson on 8 January. Six people died and Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the father of Christina Taylor Green, the nine-year-old girl killed in the shootings, said some of her organs have been donated to a young girl in Boston.