Family loses ‘acquired daughter’ to Columbine shooting, 26 years later

Family loses 'acquired daughter' to Columbine shooting, 26 years later

Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was paralyzed in the Columbine school shooting in 1999, died of sepsis caused by complications from her paralysis.

Sue and Rick Townsend first met Anne Marie Hochhalter in March 2000, during a Bruce Springsteen benefit concert in Denver in support of the victims of the Columbine High School shooting.

Sunday marks 26 years since the Columbine High School shooting

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. Sunday marks 26 years since the shocking tragedy of the Columbine High School shooting, the worst the nation had seen at the time.Twelve students and a teacher were killed when two gunmen attacked the Jefferson County school on April 20, 1999.The youngest killed in the attack was Steven Curnow, 14. The oldest was teacher Dave Sanders, 47, who shepherded students out of the cafeteria to safety and was shot as he tried to g…

Family loses ‘acquired daughter’ to Columbine shooting, 26 years later

Sue and Rick Townsend first met Anne Marie Hochhalter in March 2000 at a Bruce Springsteen benefit concert in Denver for Columbine High School shooting victims.

This Sunday marks the 26th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, which left 13 dead, in addition to the two attackers. On April 20, 1999, two 12th graders, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, started shooting at the school, when the home bombs they had left in various places of the educational establishment were not detonated, including the cafeteria. As a result of the shootings, 12 students and one teacher wer…