Practically 26 years later, the Columbine Excessive Faculty bloodbath formally claimed one other life.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Workplace, in a newly accomplished post-mortem report, dominated final month’s demise of Anne Marie Hochhalter, a 43-year-old paralyzed within the 1999 capturing, was a murder.
Hochhalter died of sepsis, with issues from paraplegia attributable to two gunshot wounds serving as a “important contributing issue,” Dr. Daybreak B. Holmes, a forensic pathologist within the coroner’s workplace, wrote within the 13-page report.
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Columbine survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter remembered by household, family members
Holmes’ ruling that “the style of demise is finest categorized as murder” means the demise toll from the April 20, 1999, college capturing has elevated to 13 college students and one trainer. The 2 killers took their very own lives.
Hochhalter, who died in her Westminster residence on Feb. 16, was paralyzed after being shot within the again. She spent the remainder of her life in a wheelchair with ongoing well being points. Nonetheless, family members instructed The Denver Publish after her demise that regardless of her medical issues and grief, she by no means needed to be portrayed as a sufferer.
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