While Columbine High School shooting survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter’s life was shaped by tragedy, the tenacious woman worked hard to ensure it was not defined by it.

Anne Marie Hochhalter, who barely survived the Columbine school shooting and was paralyzed from the waist down, died Sunday, nearly 26 years after the attack. Hochhalter was 43 years old, the Denver Post reported. Her friend Sue Townsend told the paper she was suffering from medical complications caused by the massacre.

Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was shot and paralyzed in the Columbine High School mass shooting in 1999, died on Sunday of natural causes, Fox News Digital has learned. She was 43.