Gabrielle Giffords Photos since Shooting Incident

The first photos of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords  have been released since she was shot in the head during a tragic massacre that occurred outside a Tuscon strip mall in early January of this year.

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The photos were taken May 17 outside her Houston hospital, are the first clear snapshots of Giffords since the shooting five months ago during a constituent meet-and-greet in a Safeway parking lot in Tucson.

Both pictures show the congresswoman outside. In one she is alone and smiling at the camera, her hair trimmed short with the skin on the side of her head slightly disclored but with no clear sign of any scarring. In the other, she is sitting with a woman.

Giffords has been in a Houston rehab facility since two weeks after the Jan. 8 shooting. Six people were killed and 13 were injured, including Giffords.

Gabrielle Dee "Gabby" Giffords is an American politician. She is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Arizona's 8th congressional district since 2007.