Posted on 03/14/2025 11:06:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
Hard to believe more than a quarter-century later the brutal Columbine massacre is still claiming victims:
Anne Marie Hochhalter, a Columbine survivor, died last month at the age of 43. We are now learning her death is being ruled a homicide because of complications from her being shot in the mass shooting in 1999.
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.
Hate to see this. Maybe if the police had entered the school and not stood around, she might have been spared. And if those two evil bastards had not shot her, she would have been spared.
Years from now this will be taught in history with the shooters wearing red MAGA hats.
Hmmm? IIRC, if assaulted a person lives for over one year after the assault, the the assailant cannot be charged with murder should they die after that.
At least that was the law at one point in California.
Anyome up for fact checking that?
“No Notoriety” movement,
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What motivates most shooters is the fame they get after the act. Columbine shooters were 100% motivated by that.
They even dreamed, who is going to play whom, in the movie about them!
Michael Moore fulfilled their wish. I cannot stand him since.
Our society does not regards hard work, inventions, good deeds.
But, if you kill some innocent children, you become very famous (notorious). Unfortunately, some sick people really get kick out of infamy.
ARE THOSE TWO KILLERS STILL ALIVE?
Lexis: In California, the law allows for a subsequent prosecution for murder if the victim dies from injuries inflicted by the defendant, regardless of the time elapsed since the assault. This principle is supported by several cases.
Susan Klebold went to get her hair done the next day !!
No, they committed suicide at the school....................
The cousins of the Eunuchs of Uvalde.
Sign of Demon possession...................
Applies in Colorado too
I TOTALLY forgot.
Thanks. I was wrong. Good!
I would hold my head in shame forever if I had done that. Sad that the lesson learned from Columbine were not followed at Uvalde...
At least, not all police depts are run like that. Watch the film of the cops taking down the shooter in Nashville. They did not wait and many children were saved...
Were the Cowards of Broward before or after that?
Don't you just love legal "logic"?
Andrew Jackson was shot by a Kentuckian around 1810 or so. Andrew Jackson was gonna shoot the man first, but I guess the Kentuckian had better aim or faster reflexes.
In any case, the Kentuckian decided he needed to be a Missourian, and get the hell out of Kentucky before Andrew Jackson came back to finish what he had started.
As the years passed, Jackson became President, and the Kentuckian became a Senator. When they met, Jackson felt no need to resume their altercation, and they became political allies and friends.
Years later when Jackson had some surgery done, they removed the bullet the Kentuckian had fired into him years before.
Jackson sent him the bullet with a message attached.
"I believe this belongs to you."
The Kentuckian sent it back with a message along the lines
"As you have had it in your possession for so long, I believe my ownership of the item has long ago passed to you."
I bet they both had a good cackle over this exchange.
But had Jackson died with that bullet in him, would the lawyers claim it killed him?
Probably.
After columbine and before Uvalde.
>>>”...would the lawyers claim it killed him?”<<<
Depends on how much of a cut they get....................
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