A 6-year-old boy is in police custody after he shot a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Jan. 6.
Police Chief Steve Drew said in a news conference, “The individual is a 6-year-old student. He is right now in police custody.
Drew said the female teacher – who is in her 30s – was shot inside a classroom and added that “this was not an accidental shooting.”
The police chief said there was an altercation between the teacher and the student, who had the firearm, and that a single round was fired.
Yhe teacher’s condition has improved in the last update fromthe critical condition, on Friday evening January 6.
Richneck Elementary School will be closed Monday, Jan. 9, according to Newport News Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. George Parker.
Dr Parker said. “We need to educate our children, to keep them safe and ee need the community’s support, continued support, to make sure that guns are not available to youth and I’m sounding like a broken record today, because I continue to reiterate that: that we need to keep the guns out of the hands of our young people,” the superintendent said.
