The death of the victim of the shooting in Columbine in 2025 was ruled by murder; The toll is increasing to 14
A woman who was partially paralyzed during 1999 Mass shooting in Columbine High School She died last month, and her death has now ruled the murder.
Anne Marie Hochhalter died since Sepse 16 February at the age of 43. Complications from her paralysis have significantly contributed to her death, according to a report of an autopsy from the Mrs. Jefferson County Monsterial Office, who received Associate Press on Thursday.
Hochhalter was one of 23 people injured in a shooting on Littleton, Colorado, High school, but survivor.
Including her death, a shooting in Columbine claimed that 14 victims were as 12 students, and one teacher was killed on the day of the attack on April 20, 1999. Both shooters, who were students, took their lives.
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The death of Anne Marie Hochhalter in February 2025, who survived a massacre at Columbine High School, but partially paralyzed, the murder ruled. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, file)
Hochhalter’s brother, Nathan, said the infected pressure led to Sepse, And although he knew her condition would shorten her life, her death was not expected early.
“We didn’t think this would be this soon,” he told AP.
Hochhalter was shot in the back and chest while eating in the school cafeteria, resulting in paralysis. For years, she struggled with intense pain after the shooting, but friends and family said they fought to overcome the complications that were caused by injuries – and remained positive while she was doing it.
In 2016, Hochhalter wrote a letter of forgiveness by Sue Klebold, the mother of one of the shooters.
“A good friend once said to me, ‘Oglovnja is like swallowing pills from poison and expectation that the other person will die. “It just harms himself.
File – Anne Marie Hochhalter participates in a vigil for the victims of mass recording at Cinema in Aurora, Colorado, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez, file)
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Hochhalter’s mother died with suicide six months after Columbine. She said to her mother fought with depression And they did not believe that the shootings were directly guilty of the tragedy.
After her mother’s death, she became very close to the Townsend family, whose daughter Lauren was killed in Columbine shooting.
“She brought light into our life that will shine for a long time,” said Sue Townsend, stepmother Lauren.
The surviving shooting of Columbine Anne Marie Hochhalter (right) talks to Sue Townsen, the stepmother of the shooting victim Lauren Townsend, during the Memorial Ceremony of 25th April 2024. (Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
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After a vigil last year, marking 25. the shooting anniversary, Hochhalter said she was overwhelmed by her childhood with happy memories and wanted the victims to remember how they lived, not how they died.
“I truly managed to cure my soul from that awful day in 1999,” she wrote in a post on social media.
