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A 6-year-old boy is in police custody after he shot a trainer at Richneck Elementary College in Newport Information, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Police Chief Steve Drew stated in a information convention.
“The person is a 6-year-old scholar. He’s proper now in police custody,” Drew stated. “We’ve been in touch with our commonwealth lawyer and another entities to assist us greatest get companies to this younger man.”
Drew stated the feminine trainer – who’s in her 30s – was shot inside a classroom and added that “this was not an unintentional capturing.”
The police chief stated there was an altercation between the trainer and the scholar, who had the firearm, and {that a} single spherical was fired.
Drew, who had earlier stated the trainer was in important situation, stated Friday night her accidents had been thought of life-threatening however that there was “some enchancment within the final replace that we obtained.”
There have been no different college students concerned, the chief stated.
The investigation is ongoing, he added.
“We’ll get the investigation accomplished, there’s questions we’ll need to ask and discover out about. I need to know the place that firearm got here from, what was the scenario,” Drew added.
Richneck Elementary College can be closed Monday, in accordance with Newport Information Public Faculties Superintendent, Dr. George Parker.
“I’m in shock, and I’m disheartened,” Parker stated in Friday’s information convention. “We have to educate our kids and we have to maintain them protected.”
“We’d like the neighborhood’s assist, continued assist, to ensure that weapons will not be accessible to youth and I’m sounding like a damaged report in the present day, as a result of I proceed to reiterate that: that we have to maintain the weapons out of the arms of our younger individuals,” the superintendent stated.
Officers are additionally trying into any previous situations that will have transpired earlier than the capturing, Parker added.