Jessica Ghawi: Aurora cinema shooting victim

Aurora victim Jessica Ghawi
The woman who once escaped

Jessica Ghawi: The 25-year-old did not survive an attack, the second
Ghawi Jessica was on her way to make their work a name in the media. Instead, media reports about her now world: as a tragic victim of the murderer in "Batman" Premiere in Aurora. With a history that is unparalleled.
"On Saturday I realized how fragile life is. I saw the victim of a senseless crime. I was reminded that we do not know when or where our time on earth ends. When or where we do our last breath. "

The woman, on 5 June wrote was 25 years young. Colleagues describe her as motivated and committed, but also as a happy and always have a laugh. On 20 July she was in Aurora, Colorado, in the Century Cinema 16, to see the new Batman movie. Her life ended shortly after midnight when she was hit by a bullet in the head.
With its eleven people died, 38 were injured, some significantly. Among her boyfriend Brent Lowak, 27, who carried off a back injury by a bullet that apparently broke up after the collision: Lowak also suffered internal injuries from shrapnel wandering. The two are said to have tried to help each other still. Thus was Ghawi that called itself a tribute to her grandmother as a reporter Jessica Redfield, of which at first only a leg injury. Then, his father told Lowak later, she was abruptly closed and he saw that she was hit in the head. Lowak managed to escape from the cinema.



Only about six weeks earlier Ghawi, which is described by all the friends and colleagues as a very cheerful, ever been witness to a senseless violent excess. An experience that they obviously shaken to the core.

On 2 June 2012 went to Jessica Ghawi Eaton Centre in Toronto. She had been on a "mission," she wrote later, a self-imposed: Shopping and eating sushi. "And if I'm on a mission, I usually can not change that."

On that day, but she sat down just short of its choosing in the sushi restaurant. Spontaneously she lost the desire, and she moved over to a fast food restaurant to eat a burger. Clock at 18.20 she paid her meal. Then, she wrote, she had suddenly felt a tightness in the chest, discomfort, she just wanted to get into the air. To clock 18.23, opened the 23-year-old Christopher H. fire on a course-rivals. His shots killed two people and injured six others partially hard. A man died, according to Ghawi the table where she sat.

In her blog she describes days later, after the shooting as she goes back into the building, realizes how close she got away. Her tone is partly reportierend, partly shaken. She does not speak of fate, is just still stunned by what it happened: "I wish I could get rid of this strange feeling, this feeling of how blessed I am that same feeling that has brought me to the Eaton Centre to.. leave. The feeling that I may have saved my life. "
On the night of the 20th July, they did not have that feeling. She sits with her boyfriend brat in the movies, full of anticipation. She twitters joking with friends, a few minutes before the shooting. Then they stopped.

Six weeks earlier, she wrote about the madness of Toronto: "Who would go into a shopping mall with thousands of innocent people and opened fire Is this really the world in which we live?"