Posted on 01/07/2023 2:42:15 PM PST by bitt
A 6-year-old boy is in police custody after he shot a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Police Chief Steve Drew said in a news conference.
“The individual is a 6-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,” Drew said. “We have been in contact with our commonwealth attorney and some other entities to help us best get services to this young man.”
Drew said the female teacher – who is in her 30s – was shot inside a classroom and added that “this was not an accidental shooting.”
The police chief said there was an altercation between the teacher and the student, who had the firearm, and that a single round was fired.
Drew, who had earlier said the teacher was in critical condition, said Friday evening her injuries were considered life-threatening but that there was “some improvement in the last update that we got.”
There were no other students involved, the chief said.
The investigation is ongoing, he added.
“We’ll get the investigation done, there’s questions we’ll want to ask and find out about. I want to know where that firearm came from, what was the situation,” Drew added.
Richneck Elementary School will be closed Monday, according to Newport News Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. George Parker.
“I’m in shock, and I’m disheartened,” Parker said in Friday’s news conference. “We need to educate our children and we need to keep them safe.”
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I think we need to lock away kids who shoot people.
What in the hell was happening in this kids home?
“We need to educate our children and we need to keep them safe.”
We need to educate our children and we need to keep the teachers safe.
It is normal for this culture. It is genetic in nature. Normally this behavior starts to manifest itself around age 10, but you might say what we have here is an early bloomer.
My kids are grown. They handled guns since they were perhaps 6. But had zero access till they were completely capable and mature enough. Something wrong in that house.
Maybe we should also look at what is happening at this school.
I think we already know the answer.
Effing school people need to quit blaming everyone for the results of their own failures.
I understand she drew first, as evidenced by the crayon in her hand . . .
On her click-bait blog, no doubt.
Just the first name please.
It would tell us a lot.
Johnny? Joe? Suzy?
Wanieasha? Quanisha?
Etc...
I don’t know about the kid, but this looks like a racist, anti-Semitic hate crime to me. And pre-meditated, to boot.
From Yahoo: “ A Richneck Elementary School teacher identified by local news reports as Abby Zwerner was intentionally shot by the young student after an alleged “altercation” in the classroom, police said.”
Maybe she was pushing the gender shxt on the kid and he did the right thing.
We’ll probably never know.
Shooting your teacher is rarely the right thing to do.
Yep- I bet the gun is unregistered. Hold the parent accountable.
First graders are too young to understand that your tattoos and nose ring mean that you are on their side.
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