Posted on 01/22/2023 7:14:38 AM PST by Drew68
A 6-year-old who shot his teacher allegedly told another educator he wanted to light her on fire and watch her die, according to a report.
Last month, the troubled boy nearly made good on his apparent murderous impulses, shooting first grader teacher Abigail Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News., Va., officials have said. Zwerner survived.
Zwerner and other Richneck teachers said they had shared their fears about the child’s grave behavior with administrators, only to have their concerns downplayed or ignored, The Washington Post reported.
Zwerner had asked for support with the boy, and expressed concerns about his behavior, teachers wrote in online messages to Newport News Superintendent George Parker III.
Abigail Zwerner was reportedly finally released from the hospital this week. “She had asked for help,” one school staff member wrote in the chat.
“Several times,” another added.
The child, who was known to throw furniture and other objects in the classroom, once wrote a note to a teacher in which he told her hated her, wanted to set her on fire to kill her, the teachers union told The Washington Post. When she brought the disturbing letter to school administrators, they told her to drop it, according to the teacher.
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True, but Bill Clinton went a Rhodes Scholar, to rapist, to President
And again that fails to mean anything without specifics.
You know nothing about the kid except that he’s psychotically violent and has a nice scooter and sneakers, and he’s black. You don’t know if he’s West Indian, African, or American, and if American if he’s deep South rural American or long-time urbanized Northern American. You take his pigmentation and run with it as determinative evidence of a culture. That culture, in Chicago, is inundated with constant violence, entrenched welfare dependance and absent fathers, but this is Virginia where the boy is from, and that itself doesn’t tell us much. Richmond, Newport News, Halifax, or elsewhere in Virginia originally.
That whole album is a masterpiece.
And now I see the school board has fired the school’s honcho, so somebody somewhere must think something wrong occurred.
My nephew is 6. He’s got two really good parents...Dad is my brother. Best man I know or have ever heard of. I’ve been surprised at some of the behavior of just a six year old. Not Amish btw. I remember me at 6...it did feel weird...learning to read...the cartoons becoming more real...
13 News Now
We’re learning more about what exactly happened at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va. on January 6, 2023. That’s the day a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher, 25-year-old Abby Zwerner. We’ve learned Zwerner and her attorney, Diane Toscano, sent a notice to Newport News Public Schools of intent to file a lawsuit. Sarah Hammond takes us through the timeline for that day, laid out by Zwerner and Toscano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APvdDg0nxLA
NEWPORT NEWS — A Newport News grand jury on Monday indicted the mother of the 6-year-old boy who shot his first grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School three months ago.
Deja Nicole Taylor, 25, of Newport News — whose son shot 25-year-old teacher Abby Zwerner during class Jan. 6 — was charged with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of recklessly leaving a firearm so as to endanger a child.
Newport News prosecutors also asked a Circuit Court judge to impanel a special grand jury to “continue the investigation into any security issues that may have contributed to this shooting.” This could include looking at Richneck administrators, the school system and others.
Such a probe could take months — and could lead to more indictments.
“Their investigation will continue as long as necessary to determine whether others are criminally responsible for the shooting of January 6,” the Newport News commonwealth’s attorney’s office wrote in a news release Monday afternoon.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — More than a year after Abby Zwerner was shot by her 6-year-old student, a Special Grand Jury indicted the school’s former assistant principal Ebony Parker on eight counts of felony child abuse.
The charges were filed in Newport News Circuit Court. WAVY obtained a copy of the indictment, which is dated March 11, 2024.
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