DENVER — Nearly 26 years later, the Columbine High School massacre officially claimed another life. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, in a newly completed autopsy report, ruled last month’s death of Anne Marie Hochhalter, a 43-year-old paralyzed in the 1999 shooting, was a homicide.

The February 2025 death of Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was partially paralyzed when she was shot during the Columbine High School massacre, has been ruled a homicide.

The Columbine killers have claimed another victim. Nearly 26 years after two troubled Colorado teenagers barged into Columbine High School and opened fire, killing a dozen classmates and a teacher, one of the students left wounded by their barrage of bullets has died from the injuries she sustained on that April 20,

The death of a woman who was partially paralyzed in the Columbine High School shooting was ruled a homicide, raising the death toll of the 1999 attack to 14. Anne Marie Hochhalter, center, attends a July 22,

The death of Anne Marie Hochhalter, a victim of the 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., was ruled a homicide because her health conditions were linked to the attack.

Columbine High School shooting survivor Ann Marie Hochhalter's death was ruled a homicide, linked to her injuries from the 1999 shooting; she died from sepsis at age 43.