Paralyzed at Columbine, Shooting Victim Forgives Mother of Gunman
Saying she looks to the future and at what’s positive in her life, a woman paralyzed in the 1999 Columbine, Colorado high school shooting has publicly forgiven the mother of one of the killers.
Anne Marie Hochhalter says it took her years to get over her anger and move beyond the tragic events that left her paralyzed from the waist down.
“I have forgiven you and only wish you the best,” Anne Marie Hochhalter wrote to Sue Klebold in a Facebook post Thursday.
Hochhalter’s decision to go public comes as Sue Klebold is releasing a book about her son Dylan, who was one of the two shooters. All the profits from the memoir, A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, will go to help people with mental illness.
Hochhalter admitted that mental illness is a common bond between her family and the Klebolds’. Her own mother struggled with it before committing suicide six months after the shooting.
“It means a lot to me that you wouldn’t keep those proceeds for yourself, but to help others that suffer from mental illness,” Hochhalter wrote on her Facebook page.
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“I have forgiven you and only wish you the best,” Anne Marie Hochhalter wrote to Sue Klebold in a Facebook post Thursday.
Hochhalter’s decision to go public comes as Sue Klebold is releasing a book about her son Dylan, who was one of the two shooters. All the profits from the memoir, A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, will go to help people with mental illness.
Hochhalter admitted that mental illness is a common bond between her family and the Klebolds’. Her own mother struggled with it before committing suicide six months after the shooting.
“It means a lot to me that you wouldn’t keep those proceeds for yourself, but to help others that suffer from mental illness,” Hochhalter wrote on her Facebook page.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/paralyzed-columbine-victim-forgives-shooters-mother/