Shot guardian of slain girl calls her name in hospital

The stricken neighbor who brought Dallas Green's granddaughter to the political event where she was shot to
death keeps waking up in her hospital bed terrified, screaming, "Christina! Christina! Let's get out of here!" the woman's teary husband said yesterday.
The neighbor, Suzie Hileman, 58, had been holding hands with precocious 9-year-old Christina Taylor-Green -- excitedly waiting in line to talk to Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson on Saturday -- when the child was fatally shot in the chest by suspected madman Jared Lee Loughner.
As soon as Hileman -- who was shot three times at the event and also broke her hip -- was able to speak from her hospital bed, "she grabbed my hand and looked in my eyes and said, 'What about Christina?' " said her grim-faced spouse Bill Hileman.
"We told her the truth," said the husband, struggling to fight back tears.
"She kept talking about holding hands and saying that the bleeding was profuse . . . She's calling out . . . [having] flashbacks of uncomfortable moments.
"The two of them were just thick as thieves," he said.
Knowing Christina's interest in politics, "Suzie had been looking for an event they could share together," Hileman said.
Now, his wife can't help but blame herself, Hileman said.
But he said Christina's parents -- her dad, John Green, is the son of former Mets and Yankees manager Dallas Green -- sent an e-mail soon after the shooting to say Suzie should not blame herself.
"It was incredibly big-hearted," said Hileman, starting to weep.
Taylor-Green's family spent yesterday preparing for her funeral tomorrow afternoon at a local Catholic church.
An aunt, Kim Green, told The Post the family was distraught over reports that a fundamentalist church planned to protest the funeral, because its followers believe that such acts of violence are a result of society's tolerance of gays.
The controversy prompted Arizona legislators to draw up and approve emergency legislation yesterday to outlaw protests near or at funerals.
The child's service will be held at the same St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church as one of the other five fatal shooting victims, esteemed federal Judge John Roll.
Relatives of other surviving victims also spoke yesterday, including Angela Robinson, whose stepdad, Dorwan Stoddard, 76, was shot dead trying to protect her mother, Mavy.
"We're just blessed he's walking with the Lord now," Robinson said. "What a way to go -- as a hero."