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Green Opens up on Arizona Shooting

If you watched this already, then you know its a tough clip to get through. You can feel the pain that Dallas Green is going through after a senseless act of violence crushed his family recently.

Green fought back the tears as he spoke to the media today in Clearwater, opening up about the death of his granddaughter, nine-year old Christina Taylor Green. She was shot and killed in the Tuscon, Arizona supermarket shooting that left U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition.

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