6 year-old shoots teacher

A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom Friday, police and school ...

He said the boy had a handgun in the classroom, and investigators were trying to figure out where he obtained it. He said the data listed school shootings involving children ages 7, 8, 9 and older, but not 6-year-olds. Richneck has about 550 students who are in kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the Virginia Department of Education’s website. “There are students who killed teachers, more typically high school students,” Fox said. From 2010 through 2021, there were more than 800 school-related shootings in K-12 schools that involved 1,149 victims. Many occur outside a school building where students are unsupervised. The teacher — a woman in her 30s — suffered life-threatening injuries. Just wondering if that one person was my son.” But he said he and his classmates were soon holed up in the back of a classroom. Her condition had improved somewhat by late afternoon, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said. [told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper](https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-richneck-shooting-20230106-bx3uw6mhlzerbosms7zoahdlx4-story.html) she got a text from the school stating that one person was shot and another was in custody. (AP) — A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom Friday, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said.

Child shooter arrested after 'not accidental' incident in Virginia town of Newport News.

He said the boy had a handgun in the classroom, and investigators were trying to figure out where he obtained it. If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. “The individual is a six-year-old student.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A school shooting that Virginia police said was committed by a 6-year-old student represents an extremely rare occurrence of a young ...

He said the shooting didn't appear to be an accident and that it was isolated to the single victim. Webster, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who studies gun violence, agreed that a 6-year-old shooting a teacher in a school is extremely unusual. In the Newport News case, Police Chief Steve Drew said Friday that the teacher suffered life-threatening injuries but that her condition had improved somewhat by late Friday afternoon. Fox said he was aware of only one other school shooting involving a student that age. The police chief said the shooting was not accidental and was part of an altercation but didn't elaborate further. The boy shot and wounded the teacher in a first-grade classroom on Friday at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, according to authorities.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The teacher who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old boy at an elementary school in Newport News, Va., was in serious but stable ...

“This is a horrific tragedy,” she said. “The idea that a 6-year-old can have intent and the ability to shoot and kill their teacher on purpose is bizarre,” she said. “This is a surreal experience,” he said. Teachers, he said, “cannot control access to weapons.” The boy, a first-grader, is in custody, police said. Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones said he and other officials spoke with the teacher’s family Friday night at a hospital.