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, a survivor of the Columbine High School mass shooting, died Sunday, her former principal, Frank DeAngelis, told Nexstar's KDVR on Monday.

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.