This undated photo provided by the family shows Jessica Ghawi. Ghawi is one of the 12 people killed when a gunman barged into a crowded theater, set off gas canisters and opened fire as spectators dove for cover and tried to flee, Friday, July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colo. Dozens of others were injured, including 11 in critical condition. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the family)
This undated photo provided by the family shows Jessica Ghawi. Ghawi is one of the 12 people killed when a gunman barged into a crowded theater, set off gas canisters and opened fire as spectators dove for cover and tried to flee, Friday, July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colo. Dozens of others were injured, including 11 in critical condition. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the family)
This undated photo provided by the family shows Jessica Ghawi. Ghawi is one of the 12 people killed when a gunman barged into a crowded theater, set off gas canisters and opened fire as spectators dove for cover and tried to flee, Friday, July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colo. Dozens of others were injured, including 11 in critical condition. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the family)
Sue Greene, mother of Brent Lowak, 27, shows a picture of her son, at right, with close friend Jessica Ghawi, at the Children's Hospital Colorado, in Aurora, Colo., where her son is recovering from bullet wounds, Sunday, July 22, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. Brent Lowak, is one of six victims being treated at the Children's Hospital Colorado, from the shootings at the Century Aurora 16 Cineplex. 12 people were killed and 58 were wounded early Friday morning while attending the opening of "The Dark Knight Rises." The suspected gunman was arrested at the scene shortly after the shootings. Brent, who is expected to make a full recovery, was attending the film with Ghawi, who was killed in the attack. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Zach Ornitz) TV, INTERNET AND MAGAZINES CALL FOR RATES AND TERMS
Larry Lowak, left, and Sue Greene, parents of Brent Lowak, speaks at the Children's Hospital Colorado, in Aurora, Colo., where their son is recovering from bullet wounds, Sunday, July 22, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. Brent Lowak, 27, is one of six victims of the shootings at the Century Aurora 16 Cineplex being treated at the Children's Hospital Colorado. 12 people were killed and 58 were wounded early Friday morning while attending the opening of "The Dark Knight Rises." The suspected gunman was arrested at the scene shortly after the shootings. Brent was attending the film with close friend Jessica Ghawi, who was killed in the attack. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Zach Ornitz) TV, INTERNET AND MAGAZINES CALL FOR RATES AND TERMS
This undated photo provided by the family shows Matt McQuinn, left, and Samantha Yowler. McQuinn was killed and Yowler was wounded in the Friday, July 20, 2012 Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooting. (AP Photo)
CINCINNATI (AP) ? Jessica Ghawi was an aspiring sports journalist, a pretty, blue-eyed redhead who had survived a shooting at a Toronto mall only to be killed less than two months later in a massacre at a Colorado movie theater.
Matt McQuinn had just moved to Colorado from Ohio last fall with his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler. He saved Yowler in the same movie theater by diving in front of her and taking three bullets.
The two were strangers but forever will be linked in death as two of the 12 people killed during the midnight opening of "The Dark Knight Rises" just more than a week ago on July 20. Both will be laid to rest Saturday, McQuinn in his western Ohio hometown of Springfield and Ghawi in her hometown of San Antonio.
James Holmes, a 24-year-old former doctoral student studying neuroscience, is accused of opening fire on the theater, killing 12 people and injuring 58. He is due to be formally charged at a court hearing Monday in Colorado.
McQuinn, 27, was one of three men in the theater now being hailed as heroes for dying while shielding their girlfriends from gunfire.
McQuinn's girlfriend was shot in the knee and survived. It was unclear Friday whether she was well enough to attend the funeral.
Her 32-year-old brother, Nick Yowler, who also shielded his sister, wasn't injured.
Ghawi, a 24-year-old aspiring sports journalist who moved to Colorado about a year ago, survived a June 2 shooting at a Toronto mall that left two dead and several injured. She blogged about the experience, writing that it reminded her "how fragile life was."
"I was reminded that we don't know when or where our time on Earth will end. When or where we will breathe our last breath," Ghawi wrote.
She was at the movie theater that night with her close friend, Brent Lowak.
Lowak's mother, Sue Greene, told reporters this week that the two were sitting in the sixth or seventh row when Lowak heard the hiss of gas.
Lowak and Ghawi ducked when they heard the sound, and Ghawi screamed as a bullet pierced her leg, Greene said.
Lowak ? who has been studying to become an emergency medical technician ? applied pressure to Ghawi's wound as she screamed. Lowak realized she had been shot again when she stopped screaming, and she was soon dead.
"Only then did he leave her," Greene said.
Lowak, who couldn't walk because he had been shot, crawled away and managed to find his way to a van taking victims to the hospital.
He took his first steps after the shooting on Sunday and told his mother that he desperately wanted to recover enough to attend his friend's memorial service. It was unclear Friday whether he was going to make it there.
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