Columbine High School shooting death toll climbs nearly 26 years later as survivor’s death ruled homicide

COLORADO (KRDO) – Nearly 26 years later, the death toll of the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting has risen by one after the February death of a survivor of the shooting was ruled a homicide.

Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was shot and paralyzed from the waist down in the massacre, died on Feb. 16 at the age of 43. Her death was originally believed to have been from natural causes.

But in a recently completed autopsy report, the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office said her manner of death was “best classified as homicide.’…

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