Actor Christian Bale and his wife Sibi Blazic carry flowers as they visit a memorial to the victims of Friday’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado on Tuesday. (AP-Yonhap News)
AURORA, Colorado (AFP) ― Batman actor Christian Bale paid a low-key visit Tuesday to Aurora, Colorado to comfort victims of last week’s shooting massacre, which occurred during a screening of his latest film.
Pictures posted on Twitter showed the Welsh-born actor at the Medical Center of Aurora, where 20 of the 58 people wounded in Friday’s massacre are still receiving treatment, some of them in critical condition.
“Christian Bale meeting with Aurora heater shooting victim Carey Rottman,”
read one tweet above a photo of Bale, crouched next to the young man with his arm resting on his chair as the two smiled for the camera.
Rottman posted two photos of himself with Bale ― who won a best supporting actor Oscar in 2011 for his work in “The Fighter” ― on his Facebook page.
The 27-year-old Rottman said he suffered a gunshot wound to the leg in Friday’s attack.
“What a surprise! 19 Swedish staff members met actor Christian Bale today @ TMCA! More details soon,” read another tweet from the Swedish Medical Center with a photo of Bale wearing a black T-Shirt and posing with medical personnel.
On Saturday, Bale said through his publicist: “Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them.”
