Anne Marie Hochhalter

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Anne Marie Hochhalter (December 19, 1981 – February 16, 2025) was an American anti-gun violence activist who was an initial survivor, but later fatal victim of the Columbine High School massacre. She was shot in the chest and back by Eric Harris during the attack at age 17, and was paralyzed from the waist down, with a spinal cord injury and intense nerve pain for the rest of her life. In the decades that followed, she spoke out against gun violence and opposed publicizing killers' names in the media as part of the No Notoriety movement, arguing that social media companies were profiting from violent content. She was also an advocate for supplemental Social Security payments for people with disabilities. Six months after the Columbine shooting, Anne Marie's mother Carla, who had been suffering from depression and mental health issues previously, shot and killed herself in a pawn shop after asking to see a revolver. In 2009, Hochhalter told U.S. News & World Report that she had found it...

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