Abigail Zwerner, 25, sat down this week with “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie for her first-ever interview.
A Virginia elementary teacher says she is haunted by the look on the face of the 6-year-old student that shot her with his mom’s gun in January and still has a bullet lodged in her chest from the “shocking” incident.
“There’s some things that I’ll never forget. And I just will never forget the look on his face that he gave me while he pointed the gun directly at me,” she added. “That’s something that I will never forget. It’s changed me. It’s changed my life.”Zwerner said she believed she only survived because the bullet went through her hand before penetrating her chest and collapsing her lung.“I think it will always be there,” Zwerner said emotionally.
Zwerner said she underwent another operation on her left hand to repair damage from when the bullet initially pierced the middle bone, damaging the thumb and index finger before entering her chest.In the weeks after the shooting, it was revealed that school officials were warned by a teacher that the unnamed student had a gun in his backpack and was showing it to another student at recess.
The student had brought the 9mm gun into school and opened fire a day after smashing Zwerner’s phone, she told the outlet.Mike Caudill New York PostWhen asked if she felt administrators should have done more to prevent the incident, Zwerner — who is taking legal action against the district — nodded and said “yes.”She said there are days when she“I’ve been doing okay. You know, it’s been challenging,” she said. “I’ve gone through a lot of obstacles and challenges.
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