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6-year-old shot teacher at Newport News, Virginia, elementary school, police say
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A 6-year-old scholar shot a trainer throughout an altercation at a Virginia elementary college on Friday, police stated. No college students have been injured within the incident at Richneck Elementary College, Newport Information police stated in a statement.
“This was not an unintentional capturing,” Police Chief Steve Drew informed reporters throughout a night press convention.
The chief stated the trainer, a lady in her 30s, suffered what he described as a life-threatening gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital. The trainer was in steady situation Saturday, in accordance with a spokesperson from Riverside Regional Medical Heart.
The boy was taken into custody, the chief stated. Nobody else was concerned within the incident, he stated.
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“Now we have been in touch with our commonwealth lawyer and another entities to assist us greatest get companies to this younger man,” Drew stated.
The chief stated a handgun was used within the altercation and he needed to know the place it got here from.
The capturing was remoted to a classroom on the college, Drew stated.
“This was not a state of affairs the place we had a scholar, or some other people, going up and down the halls actively firing in a protracted capturing incident,” Drew stated.
A police spokesperson stated in an announcement Saturday Drew had met with the sufferer and her household, and she or he has improved. “Due to the continuing nature of the investigation, we won’t be releasing any additional data at the moment,” police stated within the assertion.
Mayor Phillip Jones stated the incident “hurts my coronary heart.”
“It is a darkish day for Newport Information,” Jones stated. “We’ll be taught from this, and we’ll come again stronger.”
Colleges Superintendent George Parker III stated the incident occurred in a first-grade classroom.
“Right now our college students acquired a lesson in gun violence,” Parker stated.
“That is horrible,” he added. “That is one thing that ought to by no means happen, and I feel we’re all in shock and all of us perceive that we’ve lots of work to do as a neighborhood to verify issues like this do not happen.”
Steel detectors are used randomly all through the varsity district, Parker stated. Lessons will not be held on the college Monday.
