Loughner`s MySpace profile indicates he attended and graduated from school in Tucson and had taken college classes. He did not say if he was employed."We`re getting out of here. We are freaked out," 33-year-old David Cleveland, who lives a few doors down from Loughner`s house, told The Associated Press.Cleveland said he was taking his wife and children, ages 5 and 7, to her parent`s home when they heard near the shooting.
When we heard about it, we only got sick to our stomachs," Cleveland said. "We only wanted to hold our kids tight."High school classmate Grant Wiens, 22, said Loughner seemed to be "floating through life" and "doing his own thing.""Sometimes religion was brought up or drugs. He smoked pot, I don`t know how regularly. And he wasn`t too keen on religion, from what I could tell," Wiens said.Lynda Sorenson said she took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College`s Northwest campus and told the Arizona Daily Star he was "obviously very disturbed." "He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," she said.In October 2007, Loughner was cited in Pima County for possession of drug paraphernalia, which was dismissed after he completed a diversion program, according to online records."He has kind of a troubled past, I can say you that," Dupnik said.Giffords was first elected to Congress amid a wave of Democratic victories in the 2006 election, and has been mentioned as a possible Senate candidate in 2012 and a gubernatorial prospect in 2014.She is married to astronaut Mark E. Kelly, who has piloted space shuttles Endeavour and Discovery. The two met in China in 2003 while they were serving on a committee there, and were married in January 2007. Sen. Bill Nelson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Space and Science Subcommittee, said Kelly is training to be the next commander of the space shuttle mission slated for April. His brother is currently serving aboard the International Space Station, Nelson said.Giffords is known in her southern Arizona district for her numerous public outreach meetings, which she acknowledged in an October interview with The Associated Press can sometimes be challenging."You know, the crazies on all sides, the multitude who come out, the planet earth people," she said with a following an appearance with Adm. Mike Mullen in which the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was peppered with bizarre questions from an audience member. "I`m glad this just doesn`t happen to me."-Associated Press Writers Pauline Arrillaga in Tucson, Jacques Billeaud, Bob Christie and Paul Davenport in Phoenix, and Espo, Matt Apuzzo, Eileen Sullivan, Adam Goldman and Charles Babington in Washington contributed to this report.
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