Posted on 02/07/2023 1:27:02 PM PST by Morgana
A six-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher constantly swore at staff, tried to whip other students with his belt and once choked another teacher 'until she couldn't breathe', a lawyer has claimed.
The incidents were described in a notice sent to the Newport News school district by Diane Toscano, a lawyer for teacher Abby Zwerner who was shot by the same boy earlier this year.
The lawyer informed the district that Ms Zwerner intends to sue.
Ms Zwerner had just finished reading a story to her class, who were about to head to an art lesson, when the six-year-old pulled out a handgun and shot her on January 6.
The notice of claim outlines the boy's behavioral issues, and troubling interactions he had with teachers and fellow pupils at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia.
Two days before the shooting, the six-year-old allegedly 'slammed' Ms Zwerner's mobile phone and broke it, according to the claim notice.
He was given a one-day suspension, but when he returned to Ms Zwerner's class the following day, he pulled a 9mm handgun out of his pocket and shot her while she sat at a reading table, the notice says.
The document says that several hours before the shooting, at least three teachers and staff members warned school administrators they believed the boy had brought a gun to school.
His backpack was searched, but no gun was found, and administrators did not remove the boy from class, lock down the school or call police.
The claim notice says Ms Zwerner went to former assistant principal Ebony Parker's office at about 11.15am that day 'to advise her that the shooter seemed more 'off' than usual and was in a violent mood'.
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Sounds like a young Robert DeNiro.
Gee I wonder why we haven’t heard about his parents...
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest bad parenting may have played a role in this incident
Did you have teachers telling you the answer to your problems is to cut your dick off and call yourself a girl?
Maybe he was provoked.
Let me guess...
A future democrat.
Possibly a presidential candidate?
By the time he’s grown up, he won’t have a record, so, it’s like it never even happened.
When I was in school I didn’t know of a single teacher who wouldn’t have put six year old me into a wall...
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Nowadays it would be considered raycist to do anything about it.
Needs to be institutionalized.
Rubber room.
Oh gee you think Davy?
No kidding and my parents would have been good with it.
If a teacher had previously slapped the snot our of him the first he got physical he would not have escalated.
There were no consequences for his previous bad behavior and now he is in big trouble. He had no fear of ever being hit back.
Not possible to rehabilitate imho
I can’t imagine a 6-year-old having the strength and ability to strangle an adult. Maybe we should hire teachers who are physically capable of overpowering a 6-year-old.
I’m surprised one teacher didn’t take him to a private spot where there were no cameras and have a come to Jesus moment with him by spanking his butt till he cried. And blame any redness on a fall.
Memories of Catholic school in the 1960’s and seeing an elderly nun break the nose of an incorrigible ruffian 7th grader who actually struck her in the hallway. Never another problem from him after that. Of course, today she would be arrested and the school sued for millions.
A different, and better world back then, IMHO.
A basketball American.
And somehow, didn't see a 9 mm sticking out of a 6 year old's pant pocket?
Unless the 6 year old was massively morbidly obese, that handgun was probably wider than the kids leg. Pretty crazy all around.
I’d have left his dead little body in the girls’ restroom.
That boy’s not riiiight.
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