Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona has announced that she will be stepping down this week to focus on her recovery, stated in the video above that her camp released.

Giffords was the victim of an assassination attempt in January 2011 in her home state, an attack that injured 13 people and killed six.

Suffering a gunshot wound to the head, Giffords spent the months following recovering her ability to speak, read, and write. In August, she returned to the house to vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling.

Giffords says she hope to return to public office.