According to local police, it was “not an accidental shot.”
A six-year-old student shot his teacher at an elementary school in Virginia, seriously injuring her. This was reported by the Newport News police on Friday (local time) on Twitter. The first grader at Richneck School in the city of Newport News is in police custody. No students were injured in the Friday followingnoon incident. The investigations continued.
Parents and students were brought together once more in the school’s sports hall, it said. The trigger for the incident was a dispute in the classroom, reported the “New York Times‘ citing the authorities. The boy shot the woman, who was between 30 and 40, with a handgun, Steve Drew, chief of the Newport News Police Department, said at a news conference.
The shot was not accidentally fired. The woman’s injuries are considered life-threatening, but “there has been some improvement following the last update we received,” Drew said loudly CNN. Now it has to be found out where the firearm came from and what the situation was like.
Metal detectors not active
Photos and videos taken following the crime showed frightened and confused children, and dozens of police officers were on patrol. Newport News public schools chief George Parker said he was in shock. “We must educate our children and ensure their safety.” Guns should not be allowed to get into the hands of young people.
The principal said all school campuses are equipped for random metal detector searches, but they were not used at the Richneck elementary school Friday. The school will remain closed on Monday.
Newport News has approximately 180,000 residents, making it the fifth largest city in the state. It is known for its shipyard.
threat of gun violence
School incidents involving such young shooters are also rare in the United States. According to the New York Times, there have been 16 cases involving shooters under the age of 10 since 1970. Six-year-olds were involved in three of them, and two of these three incidents were registered as accidental.
The Newport News incident underscores the continuing threat of gun violence in schools across the United States. In May, 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting spree by an 18-year-old at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
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