‘Dark Knight Rises’ Shooting in Aurora, Colorado: Rockers React

The deadly shooting rampage inside an Aurora, Colo., movie theater screening the new Batman movie ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ at midnight early Friday morning has terrified the nation — and has brought a variety of reactions from various rockers and bands as they take to Twitter to send their condolences and make sense of the massacre.

The shooting left 12 movie patrons dead and wounded 59 others; police have since arrested 24-year-old James Holmes, who surrendered to authorities behind the movie theater. Since then, the heartfelt tweets have been pouring in — check out some of the first to be posted below from the likes of Moby and Kings of Leon‘s Nathan Followill, and check back later as more rockers offer their take on this terrible, senseless tragedy.

My thoughts & prayers go out to those affected by the Aurora, CO tragedy. Such a senseless & cowardly act.

— nathan followill (@doctorfollowill) July 20, 2012

why? what is wrong with us? too tragic and heartbreaking.Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater cnn.com/2012/07/20/us/… #cnn — moby (@thelittleidiot) July 20, 2012

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families in Aurora Colorado

— Edward Sharpe (@EdwardSharpe) July 20, 2012

To all the people in colorado I am sending you so much love. My heart goes out to you.The shooting is tragic. — Brett Dennen (@brettdennen) July 20, 2012

I’m in disbelief hearing the news of what happened in CO this morning. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone out there today. -Paul

— MUTEMATH (@MUTEMATH) July 20, 2012