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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I bet they are already back in a school
“Little bastard shot me in the ass!”
Looks like teachers aught to stick to online lessons. Homeschooling from their perspective.
Oh...I can almost remember what movie that was in...
Blazing Saddles. And, it’s HETLEY!
I’m on youtube watching the news on this right now, it’s going to civil trial against the school system. The teacher is suing for 40m because she warned her principal that the kid had a gun and no one listened to her. Her hand is still damaged to this day and she still has a bullet lodged in her spine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBhIyEAZt4&list=RDNSTHBhIyEAZt4&start_radio=1
Ranks as the most ghastly story of the month. Prayers for that lovely woman whose life has been changed and possibly shortened by a little MONSTER.
MONSTER and MONSTER MAMA belong in jail
Big time.
Agreed.
I’m with you on this one.
I almost thought that this could be a “hate crime” situation, but Asst. Prin. Ebony Parker apparently didn’t care who might get shot, nor did she care about what might happen to the child with the gun.
Blazing saddles, a non woke politically incorrect classic.
Regards,
Is this an EBT related shooting?
Feral beings can’t learn. This kid will be in a jail cell before he becomes a teen.
A great one, for sure!
Those can be tuned to a desired sensitivity.
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