The shooting happened on Friday at Richneck Elementary School in the town of Newport News, with a female teacher in her 30s suffering life-threatening injuries after a student produced a handgun, police say.
A six-year-old student has shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and school officials said.A teacher in her 30s suffered life-threatening injuries after being shot by a six-year-old studentVirginia law does not permit six-year-olds to be tried as adultsThe teacher — a woman in her 30s — suffered life-threatening injuries, but no students were wounded, according to Newport News police chief Steve Drew.
He said the boy had a handgun in the classroom, and investigators were trying to figure out where he obtained it. Joselin Glover, whose son is in fourth grade, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper that she had received a text from the school stating one person had been shot and another was in custody."I was freaking out, very nervous. Just wondering if that one person was my son."
Carlos, her nine-year-old son, was at recess. But he said he and his classmates were soon holed up in the back of a classroom.
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