Christian Bale visits 'Dark Knight' shooting victims in Colorado

Christian Bale thanked medical staff and police officers who responded to the attack that killed 12 people and injured 58 others during the screening to his latest movie ‘The Dark Knight Rises'.

Christian Bale and his wife Sandra Blazic visit the memorial across the street from the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Pic/AFP

Bale visited with little advance warning and also stopped by a makeshift memorial to victims near the movie theater that was showing "The Dark Knight Rises" when the gunfire erupted.

According to Fox News, an online campaign had urged Bale to visit survivors of the shooting.

Bale, joined by his wife Sibi Blazic, also stopped by a growing memorial near the theater and walked among the 12 crosses erected for each of the slain victims, the report said.

Bale had earlier issued a written statement saying, ‘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.'u00a0