6-Year-Old Shoots Teacher at Virginia Elementary School, Police Say

A 6-year-old pupil at an elementary college in Newport Information, Va., shot a instructor on Friday afternoon throughout an altercation in a classroom, the authorities stated, leaving her with “life-threatening” accidents and renewing requires higher gun restrictions.

As of Friday night, the scholar was in police custody, whereas the authorities discovered the most effective subsequent steps, Steve Drew, the chief of the Newport Information Police Division, stated at a information convention.

The superintendent of Newport Information Public Colleges, Dr. George Parker, stated on the information convention that “we have to maintain weapons out of the arms of our younger individuals.”

“I can’t management entry to weapons,” Dr. Parker stated. “My lecturers can’t management entry to weapons.”

The capturing in Newport Information, a metropolis of greater than 180,000 individuals, about 70 miles southeast of Richmond. Va., surprised officers on Friday as they started to research what had gone incorrect inside the varsity.

“I’m in shock, and I’m in awe, and I’m disheartened,” Dr. Parker stated.