US shootings: 9-year-old the youngest victim of carnage

THE youngest victim of the Tucson shooting, nine-year Christina Green, was only at Gabrielle Giffords' meet-the-public session because she had recently joined the student council at her elementary school and a neighbour thought she might want to see government in action.

Christina, who was born 9 September 2001, appeared in a book, the 50 "Faces of Hope" representing babies from 50 states who were born on 9/11.