Hundreds Mourn the Mother of Columbine Victim Who Killed Self
More than 550 people attended funeral services on Wednesday for a mother so distraught over her daughter’s serious injuries from the Columbine High School shootings that she committed suicide.
“Evil sometimes goes after the good,” Pastor David Jensen of Christ Lutheran Church said at the funeral for Carla Hochhalter, 48, who shot herself in the head with a .38-caliber handgun Friday.
Her family said she had been battling clinical depression for three years because of the death of a brother-in-law and her mother and that the shooting six months ago was more than she could bear. The woman had been hospitalized in September. Anne Marie Hochhalter, 17, became partially paralyzed on April 20 after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., before shooting themselves to death.
Columbine students and families of students wounded or killed in the shooting rampage attended the funeral.
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