Anne Marie Hochhalter

Although she returned to Columbine High School for her senior year and attended a local community college, Hochhalter initially struggled to move on with her life. In 2001, her father decided to move the family including Anne Marie and her brother Nathan to a home in the mountains an hour away from the Littleton area, where they lived previously. Over time, she became close to Sue and Rick Townsend, whose daughter, Lauren, had been killed in the school shooting. The Townsends later referred to her as their "acquired daughter", even going on vacation with her to Hawaii, where Hochhalter was able to float in a lagoon pain-free. She concluded by saying, "I have forgiven you", and wrote, "Hindsight is truly 20/20 and I'm sure you have agonized over what you could have done differently. I know, because I do the same thing with trying to think of ways I could have prevented my mother's death. I have no ill-will towards you." On the 24th anniversary of the Columbine shooting on April 20, 2023, Hochhalter wrote on Facebook, "My wounds were the worst ones the doctors saw that day, and a few months later, one of them told me that when I get older, I have to be prepared for it to catch up to me". == Death ==

Hochhalter was found dead on February 16, 2025, at her home in Westminster, Colorado; she was 43 years old. == References ==