Va. school where 6-year-old shot teacher to get metal detectors, ‘administrative changes’
Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew speaks at an earlier news conference about the incident in which police say a 6-year-old boy shot and wounded his first-grade teacher. Leaders of the Virginia school district where police say a 6-year-old student shot his teacher last week are making several changes to boost safety, including installing metal detectors at every campus in the system.
According to authorities, the 6-year-old shot Richneck teacher Abigail Zwerner intentionally on Friday as she was teaching her first-grade class. The bullet passed through Zwerner’s raised hand and into her chest, wounding her gravely, police have said. She nonetheless ushered more than a dozen of her students to safety before seeking medical help.
The legal path forward for the child could be complicated. Virginia law presumes that young children have the intent to commit an illegal act.. In all but one of the cases where children brought guns from home to their elementary schools, prosecutors filed charges against adults.The shooting comes amid a troubled period for the Newport News district, which has now seen three incidents with guns in the last year-and-a-half.
Zwerner’s shooting has spurred condemnation of the administration and its response to the recent violent incidents in the system. Some in Newport News are calling for new leadership, including the resignation or firing of the district Superintendent George Parker III. Pete Mercier, a former music teacher who worked for 16 years in the Newport News district, said the teachers he knows still working in the system are anxious and scared. And he, too, expressed a desire for an administrative shake-up.
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