A Virginia teacher who was critically injured when she was shot by a 6-year-old student in Newport News is showing signs of improvement, the city’s mayor said
The boy shot and wounded the teacher in a first-grade classroom on Friday at Richneck Elementary School, according to authorities. Police Chief Steve Drew said the shooting was not accidental and was part of an altercation but didn’t elaborate further. No students were injured.
“It’s very rare and it’s not something the legal system is really designed or positioned to deal with,” said researcher David Riedman, founder of aHe said Saturday that he’s only aware of three other shootings caused by 6-year-old students in the time period he’s studied. Those include the fatal shooting of a fellow student in 2000 in Michigan and shootings that injured other students in 2011 in Texas and 2021 in Mississippi.
“A 6 year old gaining access to a loaded gun and shooting him/herself or someone else, sadly, is not so rare,” he said in an email. He said the boy had a handgun in the classroom, and investigators were trying to figure out where he obtained it.The police chief declined to discuss what contact investigators have had with the boy’s parents.
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