| TUCSON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury in Tucson Wednesday indicted Jared Lee Loughner on charges of attempting to kill U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS The grand jury also indicted Loughner, 22, on two counts of attempted murder in the shooting of two federal employees, Ron Barber and Pamela Simon, who are on Giffords' congressional staff, the Arizona Daily Star reported. Loughner is accused of killing six people and wounding 13 others, including Giffords, during a Jan. 8 shooting outside a grocery store in Tucson. U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke said the case "involves potential death-penalty charges" and the charges brought Wednesday "are just the beginning of our legal action." Federal charges were brought last week against Loughner in the death of U.S. District Judge John Roll and Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman. Surveillance videos of the Tucson supermarket shooting clearly show who the gunman was, officials said. The videos from nearly two dozen cameras posted around the Safeway parking lot are "very, very clear", one federal law-enforcement official told the Los Angeles Times. "It's so clear, you can even tell the sequence of who got shot when and where", the official said. "And it's not the grainy kind of typical fast-food or mini-mart robbery tape. It is so clear it leaves no issue about who was doing the shooting." A video shows Giffords being shot first, from 2 to 3 feet away, officials told The Washington Post. A bullet from a 9mm Glock pistol entered Giffords' head just above her left eye and exited from the back of her skull, officials describing the video told the Post. A video then shows U.S. District Judge John M. Roll being shot, the officials told the Times. Roll, 63, was standing near Giffords and was killed in the shooting. "You see him shot in the chest", the official told the newspaper. "He tried to get up. He started to get up but then fell back down again. He didn't make it." Loughner was arrested at the scene and faces five federal counts of murder and attempted murder for the federal employees who were killed and injured. Loughner fired 32 shots in about 15 seconds, officials told the Post. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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