Posted on 10/30/2025 12:27:38 PM PDT by Morgana
Paramedics rushed to save a Virginia elementary teacher's life after she was shot in her classroom by a six-year-old student, newly released body camera footage shows.
Abby Zwerner was shot in the hand and chest in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School.
Distressing police body camera footage presented to the jury Wednesday showed Zwerner lying on the floor as first responders applied gauze and pressure to the bloody gunshot wound on her upper chest, near her left shoulder.
The first-grade teacher, whose face was pale and displayed a pained expression, was carried out of the building on a stretcher and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Zwerner was hospitalized for nearly two weeks, required six surgeries and still today does not have the full use of her left hand. A bullet also remains in her chest.
She believed she had died in the incident, Zwerner testified at the trial Thursday.
'I thought I was either on my way to heaven or in heaven,' she told the jury. 'But then it all got black. And so, I then thought I wasn't going there.
'My next memory is I see two co-workers around me and I process that I'm hurt and they're putting pressure on where I'm hurt.'
Zwerner has filed a $40 million lawsuit against a former assistant principal who is accused of ignoring multiple warnings that the young boy had a gun.
Several of Zwerner's doctors took the stand Wednesday, detailing the scope of her injuries to the court.
A physician testified that Zwerner can no longer make a tight fist with her left hand, which has less than half its normal grip strength.
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No info on the the feral and the parents.
It’s HEDLEY!
Would you also not go after the parents of the 6 yesr old shooter?
I can’t believe I even have to write a sentence like that today.
Kid had to be right up on her because you ain’t hitting crap with that gun more than five feet away. I had one. Literally did not know where the bullet was going to go. I took a chop saw to it.
Mongo knows his trivia! LOL
But still just a pawn.
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