Authorities said they had arrested the boy for shooting a female teacher at Richneck elementary school in Newport News
Police said they were notified about 2pm that the teacher had been shot inside the school during an altercation of some kind.
“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” Newport News police chief Drew told reporters. “We have a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.”The student has since been taken into custody, and the teacher, a woman in her 30s, was taken to a local hospital to be treated for injuries that were “believed to be life-threatening”, according to the police department.
He didn’t discuss any details about how the child is thought to have gotten the gun used in the shooting. But the chief toldthat officers had moved children on the campus to the school gymnasium, and they were “safe” there while officers processed evidence that was still on the scene of the shooting.
Drew also said that there were “plenty of counselors” working with the students in attempts to keep them calm.A police statement said officers had implemented a system to reunite the students with their parents, dividing them by grade level. “An officer and a school official are walking the student to their parents, so it’s a good happy reunion, a little bit of emotion, but everything right now is safe,” Drew said., even after Congress passed a bill last year that tightened restrictions on access to firearms for some people who are considered to be at risk of carrying out violence.
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