Ex-prosecutor: Victim's miscarriage won't affect homicide charges in Colo. theater shooting: A former prosecutor said Sunday the man accused of shooting and killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at a Colorado movie theater won't face an additional homicide charge after one of the victims who was critically injured suffered a miscarriage. Defense attorney Karen Steinhauser, a former prosecutor and current adjunct professor at the University of Denver, said homicide charges in Colorado only apply to those "who had been born and alive. Legally, it doesn't fit the definition."
The family of Ashley Moser, who was critically wounded in the July 20 shooting in Aurora, said in a statement Saturday she is recovering from surgery but the trauma caused the miscarriage. Moser suffered gunshot wounds to her neck and abdomen. Her daughter, 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, was the youngest person killed in the attack.
Editor: Interesting to read the headlines from around the world on this story. About half refer to this loss at 8 weeks gestation as a "miscarriage" and half as an "unborn baby."
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