Batman Colorado shooting: injured mother's devastation to learn her little girl is gone However, it emerged on Sunday that she had been told the heartbreaking news late on Saturday night. "She took it very badly," Jean Moser said "I know she was shocked." The heartbreaking tale emerged as the town of Aurora, near Denver, reels from one of the worst mass shootings in US history, which left 59 injured in addition to those who were killed. On Sunday night Barack Obama was due to visit the town to meet victims and their families. The president has suspended his election campaign in the wake of the massacre. Mr Obama and Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, have come under pressure to address the issue of gun control in America. The city was due to hold a vigil on Sunday night. But the president declined to attend, saying his presence would be distracting. Holmes was due to make his first court appearance on Monday morning. It is expected he will be formally charged but it could be months before he faces trial. It is thought that he will face at least 71 charges, one for each victim. Reports speculated that he could attempt a defence of insanity. Prosecutors have to decide whether to ask for the death penalty, which has not been carried out in Colorado since 1997. The names of all 12 victims were released over the weekend and included that of six-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan. Veronica's father, Ian Sullivan, said of his daughter: "She is the last girl I will ever love." She's a six-year-old girl. Veronica's mother is expected to survive and have use of her hands but may have some paralysis, her aunt said. Other victims included Matthew McQuinn, a 27-year-old shop worker who died shielding his girlfriend Samantha Yowler, also 27, from gunfire. Jon Blunk, 26, died trying to protect his girlfriend Jansen Young, she said. It emerged that she had survived a similar massacre at a mall in Toronto last month. Extraordinary tales of survival also emerged. One man told how he played dead after being shot twice as the gunman James Holmes stood over him. Pierce O'Farrill, a minister from Denver, said he felt Holmes's boot touch his head as he lay on the floor and listened to the gunman open fire on other cinema goers.