Shooting of teacher by 6-year-old was no accident, says Virginia police chief | 24CA News

A six-year-old scholar shot and wounded a Virginia trainer Friday throughout an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and college officers within the metropolis of Newport News stated.

No college students had been injured within the capturing at Richneck Elementary School, police stated. The trainer — a girl in her 30s — suffered life-threatening accidents. Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew instructed reporters that her situation had improved considerably by late afternoon.

Police stated the kid had a handgun within the classroom and that they took that scholar into custody.

“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” Drew instructed reporters. “We have a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.”

He added that the capturing was not an accident.

Parents and college students had been reunited at a gymnasium door, Newport News Public Schools stated on Facebook.

Newport News is a metropolis of about 185,000 individuals in southeastern Virginia recognized for its shipyard, which builds the nation’s plane carriers and different U.S. navy vessels.

Richneck has about 550 college students who’re in kindergarten by fifth grade, in keeping with the Virginia Department of Education’s web site. School officers have already stated that there shall be no courses on the college on Monday.