Person Of Interest In Gifford Shooting Was Loughner’s Taxi Driver

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Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said law enforcement officials are no longer interested in the individual who they said earlier was possibly associated with the main suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting in Arizona, Jared Loughner.

“The individual turned out to be a cab driver who went into the safeway with him because he needed change to pay for the cab,” Dupnik told Fox News in an interview Sunday afternoon.

[TPM SLIDESHOW: Dem Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot In Arizona]

Saturday’s mass shooting killed a federal judge and gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).

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