Obama visits town left reeling by shooting

Residents of a Denver suburb mourned their dead yesterday from a shooting rampage by a “demonic” gunman who killed 12 people and wounded 58 after opening fire at a cinema showing the new Batman movie.

President Barack Obama headed to Aurora, Colorado, to meet families grieving their losses in Friday’s mass shooting that has stunned the nation and rekindled debate about guns and violence in America.

Special prayers were offered in church services for those who died in the town of 325,000, 20km from the scene of the 1999 Columbine High School student massacre.