Twelve people were killed in the shooting rampage during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in a Denver suburb last week. Photos were available for nine of the victims, but all 12 are identified here:

• JONATHAN BLUNK, 26, a father of two who served three tours in the Navy in the Persian Gulf and North Arabian Sea between 2004 and 2009. A 2004 graduate of Hug High School in Reno, Nev., he most recently lived in Aurora and worked for a small flooring company.

• ALEXANDER J. BOIK, 18, recently graduated from Gateway High School in Aurora. He was to start classes at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in the fall. Gateway principal Bill Hedges said Boik planned to become an art teacher.

• JESSE CHILDRESS, 29, from Thornton, Colo., was an Air Force cyber-systems operator based at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora.

• GORDON COWDEN, 51, was the oldest of the victims killed in the shooting. He lived in Aurora, but was described as a “true Texas gentleman” in a family statement. He loved the outdoors and owned his own business. His two teenage children escaped the shooting unharmed.

• JESSICA GHAWI, 24, recently wrote a blog post after surviving a June 2 shooting at a Toronto mall, saying it showed her “how fragile life was.” She was pursuing a career in sports journalism.

• JOHN LARIMER, 27, was a Navy sailor based at Buckley Air Force Base, where he was a cryptologic technician. The youngest of five siblings, he grew up in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake, Ill., and joined the service just over a year ago, the Navy said.

• MATT McQUINN, 27, dove in front of his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, and her older brother to shield them from the gunfire, a family representative said. An employee at Target, McQuinn and Yowler had moved to Colorado from Ohio last fall.

• MICAYLA MEDEK, 23, was an ardent fan of the Green Bay Packers and lived in the Denver suburb of Westminster. She had been juggling classes at Aurora Community College with a job at a local Subway sandwich shop.

• VERONICA MOSER-SULLIVAN, 6, was the youngest of the victims killed in the attack. Her mother, Ashley Moser, remains hospitalized in critical condition with gunshot wounds to her neck and abdomen.

• ALEX SULLIVAN, 27, was celebrating his birthday by attending “The Dark Knight Rises” on Friday and it was his first wedding anniversary Sunday. His family called him a “real-life superhero” and said he enjoyed all sorts of movies and comic books, and he loved the New York Mets.

• ALEXANDER C. TEVES, 24, of Phoenix, earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology in June from the University of Denver. Family members said Teves was planning to become a psychiatrist.

• REBECCA WINGO, 32, was described by her friend Cody Shafer as a hard-working single mother, balancing the raising of her two daughters with school and work. “If she put her mind to something she was going to get it done,” he said. “What an example she set for her little girls.”

– The Associated Press