AURORA, COLO. - The critically injured mother of a 6-year-old girl killed in the movie theater shootings has had a miscarriage as a result of her injuries, her family said in a statement released by a spokesman.
Ashley Moser, 25, was among the 58 wounded during the July 20 shootings in an Aurora theater. Her daughter was one of the dozen people killed.
Moser, who had been preparing to start nursing school, was shot in the neck and abdomen, relatives said. She underwent additional surgery for her injuries on Saturday morning, Moser's family said in the statement.
"Tragically, the extreme trauma she sustained also caused a miscarriage," the statement said.
Moser's 6-year-old daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, died on the operating table, according to relatives. She had just completed kindergarten and was the youngest shooting victim.
A spokeswoman for the Arapahoe County district attorney's office, which is prosecuting the case, declined to comment on whether the miscarriage could affect the charges expected to be filed Monday against James E. Holmes, the suspected gunman. But state homicide laws apply only to a person who is "born and was alive" at the moment of the crime and specifically exclude fetuses.
Last week, another shooting victim, whose husband was shot in the face during the attack, delivered a healthy baby boy. Katie Medley, 21, a veterinary student, gave birth to Hugo Jackson Medley on Tuesday at the University of Colorado Hospital as her husband, Caleb Medley, 23, a Wal-Mart employee, remained in a medically induced coma.
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