Columbine victim’s death almost 26 years later ruled homicide raising toll to 14

Anne Marie Hochhalter died of sepsis almost 26 years after she was injured in the school shooting (Jack Dempsey/AP)

The death of a woman who was partially paralysed 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 on February 16 of sepsis – a 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 on Thursday. She was 43.