6-year-old shot teacher at Newport News, Virginia, elementary school, police say

[Elderberry]

CBS News by Alex Sundby 1/6/2023

A 6-year-old student shot a teacher during an altercation at a Virginia elementary school on Friday, police said. No students were injured in the incident at Richneck Elementary School, Newport News police said in a statement.

"This was not an accidental shooting," Police Chief Steve Drew told reporters during an evening press conference.

The chief said the teacher, a woman in her 30s, suffered what he described as a life-threatening gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital.

The boy was taken into custody, the chief said. No one else was involved in the incident, he said.

More: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/richneck-elementary-school-shooting-newport-news-virginia/

[EdinVA]

There is something missing about this story, either intentionally or otherwise.
May have been the culmination of abuse or gender bending.... but 6 year olds don't have enough focus to pull this off.

[Kamaji]

More details needed.

[Smokin Joe]

"You aren't cutting my balls off!" ?

One would think, especially at such a young age that something dire provoked this.

No, we are far from getting the whole story.

[Sighlass]

Seems a pretty rough town... just judging by a few factors. Not that my state doesn't have a city with worse stats (Birmingham).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_News,_Virginia#Demographics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_News,_Virginia#Crime

[jafo2010]

Wouldn't that be the hoot of a sad event that this teacher was trying to encourage little Johnny to wear a dress and he didn't want to.  Something is not right here, and will the public hear the truth or will this get whitewashed? 

Truth is hard to come by today.  My money is that there was something not right about this teacher.

[Elderberry]

New York Times By Livia Albeck-Ripka and Eduardo Medina

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/newport-news-school-shooting-virginia.html

David Riedman, who founded the K-12 School Shooting Database after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, has compiled data on every school shooting — anytime a firearm has been discharged on school property — dating back to 1970. He found 16 cases involving shooters under the age of 10.

Three of them involved 6-year-old children. Two of those were ruled accidental shootings: One in 2011 at an elementary school in Houston in which a student had a gun that went off, injuring three people; and another in Mississippi in 2021, when a first-grader shot a fellow student with a gun he had brought to school and was playing with. In the third case, which attracted national attention, a 6-year-old boy shot and killed a young girl as the teacher was lining up students in a hallway.

According to Mr. Riedman’s research, there has been only one shooting at a school that involved someone under 6 years old: a kindergartner, aged 5, shot a gun in the cafeteria of his school in Memphis, Tenn., in 2013. No one was injured.

More at link.

[mountaineer]

Perhaps the teacher merely told the child to be seated or quiet down and he refused. You ain' tellin' me what to do, b**ch.

Pow!

[Hoodat]

Newport Bad News

[Idiot]

What sane parent lets a 6 yr old near a gun?

[Elderberry]

https://www.eaglegunrangetx.com/youthsafety/

Free Kids Gun Safety Classes offered in Lewisville and Farmers Branch, TX

Are the children in your house curious about firearms? Bring them to us for our kids Firearm Safety Class.

This course is designed to teach kids what to do if/when they come into contact with a firearm,  personal safety with firearms and safe handling. We will introduce kids to firearm safety and show a few different types of firearms.  Whether you have firearms in your house or not, your children will inevitably come into contact with them and you may not be present. It is extremely important for them to know how to respond if he, or she, encounters a firearm.

The class is intended for youth between the ages of 6 and 17 and is FREE.  The class will have limited seating so please sign up online, over the phone or in the store.
List of topics covered:

•   Unintentional contact with a firearm
•   Introduction to firearms
•   Basic Firearm Safety
•   Safe Handling
•   Range Rules and etiquette
 
Classes will be held at 6pm on the first Thursday in Farmers Branch and 5pm on the third Thursday in Lewisville every month.

We have extended Youth night on these nights so you can take the kids out to shoot after class.  On Youth night we shut down a bay and only allow .22 and BB guns so there are no loud guns.  If you want to shoot any other calibers you can shoot in the other bay.

[sneakypete]

What sane parent lets a 6 yr old near a gun?

@mrpotatohead

I started to post,"Parents who name their sons with names like "Kwanzee",but then I remembered I got my first gun when I was 8. It was a double-barrel 12 gauge with hammers.

Then again,I only took it to school once,and then it was because the Principle heard I had it,and wanted to look at it. One of my aunts was my bus driver,and when she asked me why I was taking a shotgun to school,she said "ok",and let me on the bus with it.

Not ONE single person,adult OR child was scared to see me walking around in the school carrying a shotgun.

Granted,that was a rural school,but times really HAVE changed.

[rangerrebew]

Teacher, 25, fighting for life after she was shot by six-year-old boy in class
Story by James Hockaday • 5h ago



A first-grade teacher who police say was deliberately shot in the chest by a six-year-old boy has been named as 25-year-old Abby Zwerner.
 
Investigators say the child got into an ‘altercation’ with the victim before shooting her in a classroom at Richneck Elemtary School in Newport News, Virginia.

The teacher is said to have ‘screamed at her kids to run away’ after the pupil fired a single bullet, according to parent Sebastian Gonzalez-Hernandez, whose six-year-old son was in the classroom.

‘Even after she’d been shot she was thinking about the safety of her children,’ he told DailyMail.com.

‘She is an amazing teacher, so dedicated. My son absolutely loves her, and we’re devastated about what’s happened. We are all thinking of her and hoping that she gets better soon.’

Ms Zwerner was rushed to hospital for surgery and remains in a critical condition following the shooting at around 2pm on Friday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teacher-25-fighting-for-life-after-she-was-shot-by-six-year-old-boy-in-class/ar-AA164tcx?cvid=a95be5b6e6b94997b0936f7da4b52e02

[rangerrebew]

This deserves more coverage than a multimillion-dollar football player being injured.  Schools have become war zones, too, though most districts are loath to admit it.

[DCPatriot]

This deserves more coverage than a multimillion-dollar football player being injured.  Schools have become war zones, too, though most districts are loath to admit it.

First of all...Damar Hamlin isn't a "multimillionaire".  He's still playing on a rookie contract.

Nobody ever heard of him before last Monday.

Secondly, a 6 year old hasn't reached the "age of reason".

Violent video games along with poor parenting....IMO.

[Hoodat]

This deserves more coverage than a multimillion-dollar football player being injured.

Agreed.  I'm guessing that this school teacher didn't have an ambulance and a full medical team only 120 yards or so away from her when she got shot.

[Fishrrman]

Bad seed.
6 years old or not, this vermin should be put down.

[Wingnut]

Agreed.  I'm guessing that this school teacher didn't have an ambulance and a full medical team only 120 yards or so away from her when she got shot.

Maybe teaching should be reclassified as a contact sport.

[GtHawk]

Maybe teaching should be reclassified as a contact sport.

Maybe that's the problem, it used to be, the Principal's paddle contacting the arse of the pupil that was disrespectful(why do I wonder if the little tyke popped a cap in teach because she disrespected him) or disruptive in class or otherwise broke the rules of conduct...remember those?

[mountaineer]

... Police say the violence was not accidental, as questions swirled about what will happen to the student. Experts say it is rare that a child so young would be accused of intentionally shooting someone.

Police in Newport News, Virginia, said the child and the teacher had an "altercation" before a single shot was fired in a first-grade classroom at Richneck Elementary School on Friday afternoon.  ...

A major focus of the investigation going forward will be where the child got the firearm used, which Drew said was a handgun.

Police have not responded to an inquiry about that aspect of the investigation or about whether any adults were questioned in connection with the shooting.  ...

If the child were to be charged, a defense attorney could argue a common law defense of infancy, Block said, meaning he is too young to understand the ramifications of what he's done. Block and DiCorrado both said he would have to also be found competent by a court, meaning he could assist in his own defense, unlikely with a 6-year-old.

Instead, authorities might file a petition stating he is a child in need of services such as counseling, Block said. It's more likely authorities will focus on providing services to the boy in the interest of rehabilitation rather than punishment.   ...

USA Today via MSN

[sneakypete]

 Experts say it is rare that a child so young would be accused of intentionally shooting someone.

@mountaineer

Dam white chillruns! Yew jist kain't trus de krackas!

BTW,what the HELL is a 6 year old doing in school,anyhow? Isn't he too young?

Not to worry,though. I am sure they will convict him as a juvenile and allow him to stay at home with an ankle bracelet,to end up with a full pardon at age 18 if he doesn't murder anyone else between now and then.

[Hoodat]

If the child were to be charged, a defense attorney could argue a common law defense of infancy, Block said, meaning he is too young to understand the ramifications of what he's done. Block and DiCorrado both said he would have to also be found competent by a court, meaning he could assist in his own defense, unlikely with a 6-year-old.

When will the student be transferred into the Fairfax County Public School system?

[Wingnut]

Maybe that's the problem, it used to be, the Principal's paddle contacting the arse of the pupil that was disrespectful(why do I wonder if the little tyke popped a cap in teach because she disrespected him) or disruptive in class or otherwise broke the rules of conduct...remember those?

Long lost days.  And now here we are.

[Kamaji]

Teacher, 25, deliberately shot in the chest by six-year-old boy in Virginia elementary school classroom 'has improved' and is 'in stable condition': Child remains in police custody

Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11610093/Teacher-25-deliberately-shot-chest-six-year-old-boy-Virginia-stable-condition.html

[GtHawk]

Teacher, 25, deliberately shot in the chest by six-year-old boy in Virginia elementary school classroom 'has improved' and is 'in stable condition': Child remains in police custody

Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11610093/Teacher-25-deliberately-shot-chest-six-year-old-boy-Virginia-stable-condition.html

It goes way beyond the kid, why haven't we heard about his parents parent being charged, and if they have other children their being removed from the home?

[sneakypete]

It goes way beyond the kid, why haven't we heard about his parents parent being charged, and if they have other children their being removed from the home?

@GtHawk

Beats me! Been wondering about  this myself. ESPECIALLY why we aren't hearing of either of the parents being charged with allowing a 6 year old access to a loaded firearm. The ONLY conclusion I can come up with is that one or the other of the parents is politically connected or prominent and they are being given time to get their defense in order before any charges are made.

I see NO way they can possibly avoid being charged,even if they are never convicted.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Virginia teacher was deliberately shot in chest after she tried to take away 6-year-old boy's gun: report
The Post Millennial, Jan 9, 2023

Following the shooting of a first-grade teacher at a Virginia elementary school, it has been revealed that the teacher was trying to confiscate a gun from one of her students when she was deliberately shot by the child.

Abby Zwerner, 25, took a bullet to the chest after the six-year-old boy reportedly pulled out a handgun in the classroom. The teacher was moments away from taking the gun away when she was shot, according to the Daily Mail.

The class had just finished reading a story together and were just about to begin an art class when the youngster pulled out the weapon.

"She was going to confiscate it, and that's when he shot," Brittaney Gregory, the mother of one of the shooter's classmates, told the Washington Post.

As she fell to the ground immediately following being shot, Zwerner reportedly begged her children to run away.

The teacher was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, and is said to be in serious but stable condition.

Due to the boy's age, it is unlikely that he's ever going to be charged with a crime.

An adult could be charged under Virginia law, which requires that guns be kept in a secure location and inaccessible to children under the age of 14.

The six-year-old remains in police custody. It remains unclear how he came to be in possession of the handgun.


More:  https://thepostmillennial.com/virginia-teacher-was-deliberately-shot-in-chest-after-she-tried-to-take-away-6-year-old-boys-gun-report?utm_campaign=64483

[mystery-ak]

More

Student, 6, stole mom's gun from home and put it in backpack before shooting his TEACHER during class: Child shot single bullet through woman's hand and CHEST - and boy is now being detained in medical facility

    Abby Zwerner, 25, was shot by a six-year-old student in her classroom on Friday 
    The single bullet went through her hand and chest, police confirmed today 
    Zwerner is now in stable condition and the child is in a medical facility 
    The gun was the child's mom's - and he brought it to school in his backpack

By Sophie Mann For Dailymail.Com

Published: 14:11 EST, 9 January 2023 | Updated: 17:43 EST, 9 January 2023

more
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11615619/Virginia-teacher-25-shot-six-year-old-boy-AWAKE-talking-family.html

[EdinVA]

Well, a 6 year old has the attention span of a gnat and cannot remember a spat 15 minutes after it is over, so how does a 6 year old stay angry enough, long enough to decide to steal dads gun, smuggle it into school and fire it?
I am still suspicious that there were some nefarious activity going on with the school/teacher?  She was reading a story, what story and what was it about?  More indoctrination?

[Hoodat]

Sister Mary Elephant would have handled it.

[rangerrebew]

Boy, 6, who shot Virginia teacher used mother's legally owned gun, police say

Authorities offer the first detailed description of the moment the child opened fire on his teacher, in a shooting that has shocked a country accustomed to gun violence.

Tuesday 10 January 2023 11:26, UK

Teacher Abby Zwerner was shot and wounded by six-year-old boy at a school in Newport News, Virginia, US
 
A six-year-old pupil who shot his teacher used a gun that belonged to his mother and was legally owned, police have said.

Authorities said there was no fight or physical struggle before the boy opened fire on Abby Zwerner as she taught a lesson at a school in the US state of Virginia.
 
Police chief Steve Drew said the boy had taken the 9mm handgun from his family home in a backpack on the day of the shooting.

Providing the first detailed description of a shooting that has shocked the city of Newport News and a country now accustomed to gun violence, he told a news conference: "What we know today is that she was providing instruction. He displayed a firearm, he pointed it and he fired one round."

https://news.sky.com/story/boy-6-who-shot-virginia-teacher-used-mothers-legally-owned-gun-police-say-12783503

[rangerrebew]

Wounded Virginia teacher walked her students to safety after she was shot by 6-year-old, officials say
Story by Antonio Planas and Madelyn Urabe and Dennis Romero and Mirna Alsharif and Minyvonne Burke • 2h ago
31 Comments




The Virginia elementary teacher who police say was intentionally shot by a 6-year-old student is being hailed as a hero who saved lives by escorting her students out of the classroom while wounded.

Abigail Zwerner was struck Friday while teaching her class, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said Monday at a news conference.

"The 6-year-old child displayed a firearm, pointed it at her and fired one round," Drew said. "There was no physical struggle or fight. She was providing instruction to her class."

The bullet went through the teacher's hand and into her upper chest, "but she was still able to get all of her students out of that classroom," he said.

"She made ... sure that every one of those students was safe."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wounded-virginia-teacher-walked-her-students-to-safety-after-she-was-shot-by-6-year-old-officials-say/ar-AA1699EK

[rangerrebew]

Does anyone else find it eerie that Biden and the usual liberal howlers aren't screaming for gun control after this?  I do.  There can be only one reason they are silent - the shooter is a person of color.

[Kamaji]

Does anyone else find it eerie that Biden and the usual liberal howlers aren't screaming for gun control after this?  I do.  There can be only one reason they are silent - the shooter is a person of color.

[mountaineer]

the shooter is a person of color.

It's a safe bet. The kid stole his mama's gun. No worries, I'm sure she went through the whole background check business.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Well, a 6 year old has the attention span of a gnat and cannot remember a spat 15 minutes after it is over, so how does a 6 year old stay angry enough, long enough to decide to steal dads gun, smuggle it into school and fire it?
I am still suspicious that there were some nefarious activity going on with the school/teacher?  She was reading a story, what story and what was it about?  More indoctrination?

It may be more likely be that a six year old lacks the ability to understand what shooting a person actually does --- and it was as "simple" as he took out the gun, the teacher tried to take it, and he wanted to keep it.

[Kamaji]

It may be more likely be that a six year old lacks the ability to understand what shooting a person actually does --- and it was as "simple" as he took out the gun, the teacher tried to take it, and he wanted to keep it.

That is more likely the case.

[Smokin Joe]

Does anyone else find it eerie that Biden and the usual liberal howlers aren't screaming for gun control after this?  I do.  There can be only one reason they are silent - the shooter is a person of color.

If that is the case, an incredible amount of the ethnically based 'entertainment' out there involves a lot of people getting shot over relative trivialities.

[verga]

Wouldn't that be the hoot of a sad event that this teacher was trying to encourage little Johnny to wear a dress and he didn't want to.  Something is not right here, and will the public hear the truth or will this get whitewashed? 

Truth is hard to come by today.  My money is that there was something not right about this teacher.

I hope all of you realize that the majority of abuse comes from parents or other family members and very little comes from teachers.
And frankly I don't think it's a "hoot" no matter the cause of it.

[verga]

@mrpotatohead

I started to post,"Parents who name their sons with names like "Kwanzee",but then I remembered I got my first gun when I was 8. It was a double-barrel 12 gauge with hammers.

Then again,I only took it to school once,and then it was because the Principle heard I had it,and wanted to look at it. One of my aunts was my bus driver,and when she asked me why I was taking a shotgun to school,she said "ok",and let me on the bus with it.

Not ONE single person,adult OR child was scared to see me walking around in the school carrying a shotgun.

Granted,that was a rural school,but times really HAVE changed.

Before Columbine, swe use to let kids bring guns to school on a semi-regular basis. We would re-blue barrels (You get a great Chemistry lesson out of that.) When the metal shop was up we made firing pins, we refinished stocks in wood shop, etc.. Klebold and Harris screwed it up for a lot of people.

[Fishrrman]

The kid knew what the gun was for.
He took it from home.
Hid it in his backpack.
Took it out, aimed and shot.

Premeditation.

See my post 16 earlier in the thread.
It was not made in jest.

One more thing:
A Fishrrman all-but-100% prediction:
This kid is gonna kill somebody, sooner or later.
Do what's necessary now, to save that life (or lives).

[sneakypete]

The kid knew what the gun was for.
He took it from home.
Hid it in his backpack.
Took it out, aimed and shot.

Premeditation.

See my post 16 earlier in the thread.
It was not made in jest.

One more thing:
A Fishrrman all-but-100% prediction:
This kid is gonna kill somebody, sooner or later.
Do what's necessary now, to save that life (or lives).

@Fishrrman

100 PERCENT agreement.

Hell,there might even be more shootings at that elementary school,now that this kid has shown the other kids how much attention they get if they shoot somebody.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

I think we sometimes underestimate how much kids actually do understand.

6 year old kids have lots of opportunities to do serious, even fatal harm to others.  Their houses all have knives with which they could stab a friend, a pet, or a family member.  They could push other kids in front of cars, down stairs, etc..

But as a rule, they don't.

And that's because the vast majority of them do have an understanding of what it means to hurt others, etc..  They know it is wrong, they feel badly about it, etc..

This particular little psychopath apparently was wired differently.  And he knew exactly what he was doing when he shot her

[SZonian]

Boy, 6, who shot Virginia teacher used mother's legally owned gun, police say

Authorities offer the first detailed description of the moment the child opened fire on his teacher, in a shooting that has shocked a country accustomed to gun violence.

Tuesday 10 January 2023 11:26, UK

Teacher Abby Zwerner was shot and wounded by six-year-old boy at a school in Newport News, Virginia, US
 
A six-year-old pupil who shot his teacher used a gun that belonged to his mother and was legally owned, police have said.

Authorities said there was no fight or physical struggle before the boy opened fire on Abby Zwerner as she taught a lesson at a school in the US state of Virginia.
 
Police chief Steve Drew said the boy had taken the 9mm handgun from his family home in a backpack on the day of the shooting.

Providing the first detailed description of a shooting that has shocked the city of Newport News and a country now accustomed to gun violence, he told a news conference: "What we know today is that she was providing instruction. He displayed a firearm, he pointed it and he fired one round."

https://news.sky.com/story/boy-6-who-shot-virginia-teacher-used-mothers-legally-owned-gun-police-say-12783503

"...a country now accustomed to gun violence..." Says who?  Eff you @Skynews! for your projecting bullshit on our society.

Prayers for Abby and her loved ones.  Spit on all others.

[SZonian]

Does anyone else find it eerie that Biden and the usual liberal howlers aren't screaming for gun control after this?  I do.  There can be only one reason they are silent - the shooter is a person of color.

True perspective...damned hypocrites who wouldn't let a good crisis go to waste, silent on this one.

[sneakypete]

"gun violence"

@SZonian
I have literally been around guns my entire life,and I have yet to see a violent gun.

Or any other violent inanimate object,with the possible exception of leftists.

[rangerrebew]

School Was Warned First Grader Had Gun Before He Shot Teacher, Searched Bag But Didn’t Find It

Sandy Malone
18 hours ago
Newport News, VA – School administrators admitted that Richneck Elementary School knew the first grader who shot his teacher had been accused of having a gun in his backpack earlier that day and had searched the little boy’s bag but not found the weapon.

Newport News police said at a press conference on Jan. 13 that law enforcement was not notified about the tip the school had been given about the six year old having a gun before he shot his first grade teacher hours later, the Associated Press reported.

Newport News Police Department spokesperson Kelly King said in an email that the police department learned through their investigation after the teacher was shot that a school employee had been notified of a possible gun on campus before the Jan. 6 elementary school shooting.

https://policetribune.com/school-was-warned-first-grader-had-gun-before-he-shot-teacher-searched-bag-but-didnt-find-it/

[rangerrebew]

So a first grader outsmarted all those people with degrees!  I don't believe it and wonder what the true story is, whose *ss is being covered?

[verga]

 

[mountaineer]

Racist fake clergyman tweets:

Bishop Talbert Swan
@TalbertSwan
A six year old white boy in Virginia packs his mother’s 9mm Taurus pistol in his backpack, goes to school, and intentionally shoots his teacher.  If he were Black, there would be demands for his parents to be arrested and various conversations about neglect and bad parenting.
12:13 PM · Jan 14, 2023

Where has the child's skintone been reported? I certainly had no idea whether he was black, white or anything else. This idiot's tweet was the first time I saw any reference to it.

But without know anything about the child's ethnicity, I read a great many comments about holding the parent(s) responsible for permitting access to the weapon. This guy is such a freakin' liar and phony.