A 6-year-old boy shot and wounded an elementary school teacher Friday in Newport News, Va., in a classroom with other pupils present, authorities said.
was hospitalized at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News and described her wounds as life-threatening.“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” he said. “We had a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.”The school has 558 students in kindergarten through fifth grade in the current academic year, according to the Virginia Department of Education. The shooting left school and city officials rattled.
Hundreds of parents and other adults swarmed into the school’s parking lot after learning of the incident. After being assured that no children had been hurt, the adults were organized by authorities into groups according to the grades of the children they had come to pick up. Drew indicated that the teachers at the school had the situation largely under control when police arrived after the shooting, and that officers had to conduct only “a low-level tactical sweep” of the school.Newport News Public Schools Superintendent George Parker III said at the evening news conference that “today, our students got a lesson in gun violence,” and asked for community support to make sure guns were not available to youth. Teachers, he said, “cannot control access to weapons.
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