An unborn baby is clinging to life after its mother was shot three times by the Batman massacre gunman.

Ashley Moser, 25, was hit in the abdomen and twice in the throat when “demonic” James Holmes opened fire during a mid-night premiere of the film, The Dark Knight Rises, in Colorado.

She was sitting next to her six-year-old daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, who was one of 12 people killed by Holmes.

Moser’s brother, Robert Sierra, told the Daily Mail: “I don’t know how, but she still has the baby. Yesterday I was told she had lost it and today it’s okay. It’s a miracle as she was shot in the stomach.’

Sierra, 32, described Veronica as an “angel who was ripped away from us for no reason”. He said: “Veronica wanted to be a princess, everybody loved her. Her laughter was infectious, when she laughed everybody laughed.

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