The mother of a young woman who was shot and killed while attending the Aurora, Colo., midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" said her daughter was "very easy to fall in love with."
"She was like a jolt of lighting. We would tease when she would come home for a visit, that she'd walk in the door, it was just automatic chaos because of the energy level that she brought into a room," Sandy Phillips, Jessica Ghawi's mother, said tonight on "20/20."
Ghawi had narrowly escaped a separate shootout in a Toronto mall last month.
"She was very affected by watching the victims being brought out of that [Toronto] shooting, and realizing that several of them were close to her own age and realized that life was very fragile and she had an epiphany at that moment that it could happen to any of us at any time and instead of being afraid of that, she embraced life even more fully," Phillips said.
Ghawi, an aspiring sportscaster, was killed when 24-year-old James Holmes burst into the movie house early this morning, police say, and began shooting patrons, allegedly killing at least 12 and injuring 70.
Ghawi, who had recently moved from San Antonio, Texas, to Denver, had narrowly escaped a June 2 shootout at a Toronto food court that killed one person.
"She was like a jolt of lighting. We would tease when she would come home for a visit, that she'd walk in the door, it was just automatic chaos because of the energy level that she brought into a room," Sandy Phillips, Jessica Ghawi's mother, said tonight on "20/20."
Ghawi had narrowly escaped a separate shootout in a Toronto mall last month.
"She was very affected by watching the victims being brought out of that [Toronto] shooting, and realizing that several of them were close to her own age and realized that life was very fragile and she had an epiphany at that moment that it could happen to any of us at any time and instead of being afraid of that, she embraced life even more fully," Phillips said.
Ghawi, an aspiring sportscaster, was killed when 24-year-old James Holmes burst into the movie house early this morning, police say, and began shooting patrons, allegedly killing at least 12 and injuring 70.
Ghawi, who had recently moved from San Antonio, Texas, to Denver, had narrowly escaped a June 2 shootout at a Toronto food court that killed one person.
