6 year old student shoots teacher in VA.

[Mike Honcho 4,016]

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 A first-grade Virginia teacher who was shot and seriously wounded by her 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $40 million in damages from school officials, accusing them of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings on the day of the shooting that the boy had a gun and was in a “violent mood.”

The 6 year-old in a "violent mood" thing makes me laugh for some reason

[TimHauck 1,799]

18 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

Parents.  Bwahahahahahahash

What’s so funny?

[Alias Detective 1,179]

1 hour ago, TimHauck said:

What’s so funny?

I think them being called a parent is to kind.  

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-mom-6-year-old-who-shot-teacher-charged-connection-shooting

[TimHauck 1,799]

20 minutes ago, Strike said:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-mom-6-year-old-who-shot-teacher-charged-connection-shooting

Good

[RLLD 3,455]

14 hours ago, Strike said:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-mom-6-year-old-who-shot-teacher-charged-connection-shooting

Seems appropriate. Let's see where it goes.

Of course the parents have THEY KEY role in this kid and its behavior.  So it does make sense to identify culpability on their part where it makes sense. 

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6 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Seems appropriate. Let's see where it goes.

Of course the parents have THEY KEY role in this kid and its behavior.  So it does make sense to identify culpability on their part where it makes sense. 

In this case the school administrator's should be held personally accountable as well.  They probably won't but they should.

[RLLD 3,455]

3 minutes ago, Strike said:

In this case the school administrator's should be held personally accountable as well.  They probably won't but they should.

Agree.  But lets not ignore the unusual situation they find themselves.  If they take action to prevent this, they very likely face the charge of racism. So what are they left with? They have to let it play out, they cannot correct the child, help the child take action to protect the teacher....they have to allow the child to fester until that child lashes out.   This is what woke and liberalism offer us.

[TimHauck 1,799]

9 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Agree.  But lets not ignore the unusual situation they find themselves.  If they take action to prevent this, they very likely face the charge of racism. So what are they left with? They have to let it play out, they cannot correct the child, help the child take action to protect the teacher....they have to allow the child to fester until that child lashes out.   This is what woke and liberalism offer us.

Wtf are you rambling about?

[MDC 5,890]

10 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Agree.  But lets not ignore the unusual situation they find themselves.  If they take action to prevent this, they very likely face the charge of racism. So what are they left with? They have to let it play out, they cannot correct the child, help the child take action to protect the teacher....they have to allow the child to fester until that child lashes out.   This is what woke and liberalism offer us.

Do we know the race of the shooter? 

[TimHauck 1,799]

2 minutes ago, MDC said:

Do we know the race of the shooter? 

We know the mother’s name is Deja Taylor

[MDC 5,890]

Just now, TimHauck said:

We know the mother’s name is Deja Taylor

Okay, that seems pretty definitive.  

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NN trying to get her 40 million lawsuit thrown out

In their motion, the defense lawyers state: "...workers’ compensation exists for the benefit of employees for the purpose of providing coverage for workplace injuries without having to prove negligence on the part of the employer. Plaintiff is not without remedy; her remedy is dictated by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act and the provisions contained therein. The Newport News Circuit Court does not have jurisdiction to hear workers’ compensation claims

[Hardcore troubadour 12,627]

I hope she doesn’t get anything. Go woke get shot. 

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NEWPORT NEWS — Shortly after a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School on Jan. 6, a reading specialist was restraining him in the ensuing chaos.

“I shot that b**** dead,” the boy said, according to court documents. “I did it.”

The boy’s statements were contained in search warrant affidavits that were filed by a detective in Newport News Circuit Court on Jan. 12 but were recently unsealed.

Police interviewed the 25-year-old teacher, Abigail Zwerner, at the hospital the night of the shooting. She told police she was breaking her class into reading groups after recess when the first grader pulled a gun from his hoodie pocket and pointed it at her.

What are you doing with that?” she asked.

The boy paused, then fired a single shot, striking Zwerner in the left hand and upper torso, according to the affidavits.

Students ran out of the classroom, as did the bleeding Zwerner. But a school “reading specialist” who had heard the gunshot, Amy Kovac, ran in.

Kovac saw the 6-year-old standing by his desk, with a loaded 9mm handgun on the floor nearby, the affidavit said. She grabbed him and held him in place until police arrived. After making the statements that he had shot Zwerner, the boy also told Kovac that he “got his mom’s gun last night,” the affidvavit said.

According to the affidavit, Kovac told detectives that two students in Zwerner’s class told her before the shooting that the 6-year-old had a gun in his book bag. “While the classroom went to recess, Ms. Kovac and a school administrator searched (the boy’s) book bag but did not find a gun,” the affidavit said.

In the interview at the hospital, the affidavit said, Zwerner told police the boy was subject to multiple disciplinary reports, to include “physical violence and threats of violence.”

On Jan. 23 detectives also interviewed a retired Newport News schoolteacher named Susan White.

White told detectives that in September 2021 — while the boy was in kindergarten — he walked up behind her while she was sitting in her chair. White told detectives the boy “placed both of his arms around her neck, pulling down, choking her to the point she could not breathe,” the affidavit said.

A teacher assistant witnessed the choking and “had to forcibly remove” the boy from the classroom, the affidavit said.

A Newport News Police detective, Aaron Thornton, wrote in the affidavit that “the incident Ms. White describes … is not found” in “limited school records” he got from Child Protective Services. He said he believes that “Ms. White’s incident and possibly others were not readily provided by Newport News Public Schools.”

WTKR News 3 on Monday first reported the unsealing of the search warrant documents and some of the information contained in the related affidavits.

Circuit Court Judge Gary Mills granted the search warrants, which gave the police access to the boy’s student file with Newport News Public Schools from September 2020 to January 2023. This includes “teacher and staff documentation of assaults, supervisor notes, disciplinary actions, counseling or guidance records,” among other things.

Police were also granted permission to search the boy’s book bag, which had black and white checkers, “images of sharks,” and the boy’s initials. Detectives seized a manila folder with the boy’s student’s records, a notebook belonging to Zwerner, another notebook paper from Jan. 4 and Jan. 6, and a Dell laptop.

They also seized the book bag, containing “miscellaneous school supplies,” including books, papers, a calculator, note cards, a bag of chips and a pair of black sneakers. The records provided by the Circuit Court this week, however, don’t show that police received any student records from the school administration building.

The boy is not charged with a crime, given that Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn said he’s too young to have formed the criminal intent to be charged with it.

But his mother, Deja Nicole Taylor, pleaded guilty in Newport News federal court to a felony charge of having a firearm while also possessing marijuana and also to a felony charge of lying on a federal background check form when she bought the gun. She also has a guilty plea hearing scheduled for next week in Circuit Court on a felony child neglect charge and a misdemeanor count of allowing a child access to a firearm.

Zwerner is suing the Newport News School Board and various administrators for $40 million, contending in part that a Richneck assistant principal ignored clear signs that the boy had a gun in school that day.