“I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday,” she wrote. “I
saw the terror on bystanders’ faces. I saw the victims of a senseless crime.
I saw lives change. I was reminded that we don’t know when or where our time
on Earth will end.”
She concluded: ” I know I truly understand how blessed I am for each
second I am given.”
Ghawi, who tweeted under the name Jessica Redfield, spent part of her final
hours on Twitter describing her excitement at seeing the new Batman film and
mocking a friend who had not come with her.
“Of course we’re seeing Dark Knight. Redheaded Texan spitfire, people
should never argue with me,” she wrote.
The sports blogger, who wrote mainly about hockey, moved from Texas to
Colorado around a year ago.
Her brother, Jordan, confirmed his sister was caught up in the massacre,
tweeting: “It appears that my sister has been fatally wounded in a mass
shooting at a movie premiere in Denver, CO”.
Mr Ghawi, whose Twitter page describes him as a student and a firefighter,
said in a blog post that a friend who had been with his sister was also
injured in shooting.
“My sister took one round followed by an additional round which appeared
to strike her in the head,” he wrote.
Peter Burns, a friend of Ghawi’s, said that shortly before her death she was
trying to find a way to raise money for people who had lost their
possessions in the recent Colorado wildfires. Ghawi insisted that she did
not want her name to be associated with the charity effort, preferring to do
it anonymously.
“You won’t find a person who had more heart and more passion for what she
did than her,” Mr Burns he said.
“Anything we can do to celebrate her and lift her up, rather than the
coward who did this, is a better day,” he told CNN.
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