Obama tells victims' families that America and the world is thinking of them

Obama offers comfort after Colorado shooting

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5 of the 12 Colorado shooting victims
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Aurora theater shooting memorial

A U.S . Navy veteran. A 6-year-old girl. A Target employee who shielded his girlfriend. They and nine others were killed in the shooting rampage during a midnight showing of 'The Dark Knight Rises' in a Denver suburb.
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Posted: 07/22/2012

AURORA, Colo. (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he told the families of the victims of Friday's movie theater massacre that "all of America and much of the world is thinking about them."

Obama met with the family members Sunday at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, which treated 23 of the people injured in the mass shooting; 10 remain there, seven hurt critically. The massacre left 12 people dead, dozens injured and a nation in stunned sorrow.

He told reporters after the meeting that he came "not as president but as a father and a husband." He said "we can all understand what it would be to have someone taken from us in this fashion."

 

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