FBI Agents Visit Jared Loughner's Family Home

TUCSON - While the suspect in a deadly Arizona shooting faced charges in a federal courtroom of attempting to assassinate a congresswoman, FBI agents visited his parents home.

Reporters camped out at the suburban home haven't seen any sign of Jared Loughner's parents, but sources told CBS News that the FBI was able to speak with them.

Loughner's parents put a ply wood blockade in front of their gate to keep the media out. The FBI agents knocked, waited five minutes outside, and then went in.

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The 22-year-old is accused of killing six people on Saturday - including a federal judge - and injuring 14 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He is being held without bail and has been assigned a lawyer who defended Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Timothy McVeigh.

Investigators said Sunday they carried out a search warrant at Loughner's home and seized a letter addressed to him from Giffords' congressional stationery in which she thanked him for attending a "Congress on your Corner" event at a mall in Tucson in 2007. Saturday's shooting occurred at a similar event.

Other evidence seized from his home included an envelope from a safe with messages such as "I planned ahead," "My assassination" and the name "Giffords" next to what appears to be Loughner's signature. Police say he purchased the Glock pistol used in the attack in November.

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Loughner lives with his parents about a five-minute drive from the shootings, in a middle-class neighborhood lined with desert landscaping and palm trees.

Neighbors said Loughner kept to himself and was often seen walking his dog, almost always wearing a hooded sweat shirt and listening to his iPod.

Loughner entered a Phoenix courtroom Monday handcuffed and wearing a tan inmate uniform. His head is shaved and he has a cut on his right temple.

His expression was impassive as he walked in, looked straight at the crowd at the back of the room packed with reporters, then turned around to speak to his attorney, Judy Clarke. He responded "yes" when asked if he understood his rights.

The courtroom was under heavy guard with about a dozen U.S. marshals.

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[bundye]

What has his parents done? Media should leave them alone...it's hard enough for them to fathom what's going on...and what their son has done. They are not, and should not, be on trial!

[rondivoo]

Ewwww! This guy is scary looking! And, he looks a lot older than 22.

[uisignorant]

"faced charges in a federal courtroom of attempting to assassinate a congresswoman"...................Why is this. Where is equal protection under the law.

[rondivoo]

your username should be... "iisignorant"

[uisignorant]

Why? She was an AZ resident. This is a State/City/County issue. Not Federal. We are certain people protected more than others?

[tallturtle]

I said it yesterday and now again today. If washington politicians don't start getting some progress on the table and quit bickering likem children over toys the re will be more stupid acts like this man committed. They will come in larger numbers and bigger guns .I hope not in my lifetime . Hisyory is doomed to repat itself.YAHOO TOPPED ALL THIER ARTICLES OF INSULT WHEN THEY LABELED THE LITTLE GIRL A ASPIRING YOUNG POLITICIAN . wHAT S%$#^t FOR BRAINS PUT THAT ON THE SITE.

[PR_in_Alabama]

No doubt his parents are heartbroken. I wonder if they knew he had bought a gun..

[brian_norwood]

Or if he had a Satanic altar in their backyard.

[morriswise]

Many blogger`s who are obsessed with a return to the gold standard, also see the government as evil, and accuse it of mind control through grammar. The rhetoric that usually follows is that Zionists and the NWO are behind all of the worlds problems. The sources of their information is never presented, because it is only coming from the imagination of a troubled mind. Jared perfectly fits the description of a person obsessed with the gold standard, mind control, the NWO, Zionism and Jews. Fortunately most of these blogger`s are harmless even if troubled, and they should not be blamed for what Jared did.

[barbaram99]

Yer mean a messed up bad boy. The man is in his 20s. Jared is on his own in the matter. Someone shaved his head..They need to wipe that sick little grin from his face.

[bondsman_dotmac]

Would any one listen to what they had to say? You wish to blame them for not getting him help but did thy know that he needed it? Let facts come out before condeming them or anyone else and I don't think anyone has all the facts yet.

[quatermass2]

If I were Jared's father, I would be on the air apologizing to the victims and their families and taking full responsibility for not getting my son the help he so obviously needed. Instead, they barricade themselves in their house, and I'm going to predict when they do come out, they'll be blaming the "lamestream media" and the government for Jared's actions.

[dontknowitall]

"Because Jared is a good boy".

[dkb218]

Why should his father do anything? Should Hitlers dad be blamed for Hitler? No, every man is responsible for his own actons. While the father may come out and apologize for the acts of his son, in no way is the father to blame.