Allie Young (left) was shot in the neck and saved by best friend Stephanie Davis (right).
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She lost her beloved 6-year-old daughter and could be paralyzed for life from the Colorado massacre, but a 25-year-old mom still has a reason to live — her unborn child miraculously survived the shot to her stomach.
“I don’t know how, but she still has the baby,” Ashley Moser’s emotional brother, Robert Sierra, told the Daily Mail.
“[Saturday], I was told she had lost it, and today, it’s OK. It’s a miracle, as she was shot in the stomach,” he said.
The family waited to break the news to Moser about the death of her adorable daughter, Veronica, until late Saturday, he said. The mom was told in the presence of her own mother, a doctor and a chaplain.
“I want to die!” Moser screamed, her family said.
Moser, who is studying to be a nurse, also was shot in the neck. She will likely suffer some kind of permanent paralysis.
A 13-year-old family friend, who had gone to the movie with Moser and her daughter, tried to save the little girl.
The teen, identified only as Kayla, told CBS she frantically tried to give her tiny pal CPR.
But a wounded adult had fallen on Veronica, and others who were hurt were laying nearby, making it hard to reach her.
“I was asking the one on top of the one I was trying to help [to move], but they kept saying they couldn’t, they were numb, and I kept begging, ‘Please, try, please,’ ” she recalled. “It’s horrifying picturing in my head what I saw that night. It was terrifying because I couldn’t see . . . I couldn’t see the person who had done’’ the shooting.
Another story of amazing courage that night was revealed by President Obama.
It involved two best pals, Allie Young, 19, and Stephanie Davies, 21, both of whom met the president yesterday.
“When the gunman initially came in and threw the [gas] canisters, he threw them only a few feet away from Allie and Stephanie,’’ Obama said.
“Allie stood up, seeing that she might need to do something or at least warn the other people who were there. And she was immediately shot . . . in the neck, and it punctured a vein, and immediately she started spurting blood.
“And apparently, as she dropped down on the floor, Stephanie . . . had the presence of mind to drop down on the ground with her, pulled her out of the aisle, place her fingers over . . . where Allie had been wounded, and applied pressure the entire time while the gunman was still shooting.
“Allie told Stephanie she needed to run,” Obama went on. “Stephanie refused to go — instead, actually, with her other hand, called 911 on her cellphone.
“Once the SWAT team came in, they were still trying to clear the theater. Stephanie then, with the help of several others, carries Allie across two parking lots to where the ambulance is waiting.’’
Both women survived and Allie’s mom, in a Facebook post, said Stephanie is “an angel in my book.’’
Air Force Sgt. Jesse Childress, died saving a friend.
He threw his body over Munirih Gravelly, who later told NBC of her sadness “that none of us were able to at least hold his hand and look him in the eye while he passed.’’
Meanwhile, thousands of relatives and friends of the victims flocked to a memorial last night.
The crowd included two men who had been married by one of the slain victims, Rebecca Wingo.
Marq Shafer and his husband, Cody, said Wingo took an online course to become a minister so she could marry them in 2010.
“She had a smile that could light up a room,’’ Cody said.
Additional reporting by Barry Bortnick in Aurora