Hard to believe more than a quarter-century later the brutal Columbine massacre is still claiming victims:
The death of a woman who was partially paralyzed in the Columbine High School shooting has been ruled a homicide, raising the death toll of the 1999 attack to 14.
Anne Marie Hochhalter died Feb. 16 of sepsis — an extreme reaction to infection — and complications from her paralysis were a 'significant contributing factor' in her death, the Jefferson County Coroner's Office said in an autopsy report obtained Thursday. She was 43.
Hochhalter was among the 23 injured — and now 16 killed, including the shooters — by the April 20, 1999, shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
She was shot by one of the killers while attempting to flee; the resulting spinal injury paralyzed her for life.
In later years she was an advocate for gun restrictions as well as the "No Notoriety" movement, which seeks to limit media attention for shooters and prevent future killers from seeking similar infamy.
Years after the massacre she famously chose to forgive the mother of one of the shooters, Sue Klebold, writing to her in 2016:
A good friend once told me, ‘Bitterness is like swallowing a poison pill and expecting the other person to die.' It only harms yourself. I have forgiven you and only wish you the best.
RIP, Anne Marie.
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