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Tucson Shooting Victim Susan Hileman Goes Home

CBS News has confirmed that Susan Hileman, a shooting victim in the Tucson rampage in which six people were killed and 14 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, has been released from the hospital and is now resting at home.

Hileman is the neighbor who took 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green to the Giffords event and was with Green when she was shot. Hileman was shot three times herself.

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Hileman's hisband, Bill Hileman, told "The Early Show" last week that listening to President Barack Obama at the memorial helped him cope with the turbulence following the shooting.

"I think for the first time, I was given a framework to try to put all this hodgepodge of emotions in some type of a sense. And I thought [Obama's] remarks particularly about Christina and the kind of America that she wants, kind of provide something for us all to point to as we deal currently with being buffeted back and forth. We can kind of set our eyes out on the future and maybe try to approximate the America that he described through her eyes last night."

Green was enthusiastic about democracy in the United States and had recently been elected to her school student council.

Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter, is charged with one count of attempted assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the federal government and two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee.

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