UPI Pictures of the Year 2011 - News and features

Cards and candles dot the area outside U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's office as a national moment of silence commences at 9 A.M. MDT two days after a young gunman shot and killed six people incuding U.S District Judge John Roll and critically wounded U.S Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Florence, Arizona on January 9, 2011. The assassination attempt occurred near a northern Safeway in Tucson on January 8, 2011. UPI/Gary C. Caskey