NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News Police are investigating after a fifth-grade student at Richneck Elementary School texted in a group text with other students that they would 'pop some bullets' and 'tell someone to shoot up the class' on Saturday. This latest incident at Richneck Elementary comes as the police investigation into what led to a 6-year-old student shooting his teacher, Abby Zwerner, mid-instruction back in January was completed on Tuesday. As a precaution, Newport News Police provided increased security for school arrivals.
Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesNEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News Police are investigating after a fifth-grade student at Richneck Elementary School texted in a group text with other students that they would “pop some bullets” and “tell someone to shoot up the class” on Saturday.
The student was immediately “excluded from school” according to the letter obtained by ABC News. Lynch wrote to parents that “a thorough investigation is underway with the police department. A threat assessment is also in progress.” This latest incident happened over a month after Zwerner, a first-grade teacher, was shot in class by her 6-year-old student. In an intent-to-file lawsuit letter sent to the school district by Zwerner’s lawyer and later obtained by ABC News, the teacher claimed that the boy had a history of violent behavior. Zwerner accused the school's assistant principal Ebony Parker, who has since resigned, of failing to act despite being told repeatedly that the student had a gun at school.
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