Anne Marie Hochhalter

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 also an advocate for supplemental Social Security payments for people with disabilities. 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."