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The shooting was the first U.S. school shooting of 2023, [1] but the third incident of gun violence in Newport News Public School district in seventeen months. [2] The shooting was one of sixteen U.S. school shootings perpetrated by shooters under the age of ten years since 1970. [3]
Zwerner was shot and wounded by a 6-year-old student while teaching class on Friday, Jan. 6. (AP Photo/John C. Clark) He was 6, in his first-grade class in Newport News, Virginia. He pointed a ...
Updated March 9, 2023 at 5:31 AM. The city prosecutor in Newport News, Virginia, said Wednesday that he would not seek charges against the 6-year-old boy who shot his elementary school teacher in ...
On January 6, 2023, a six-year-old student at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News shot his teacher, Abby Zwerner, while inside their classroom. The shooting was the first school shooting of 2023 and prompted major discussions around gun control and violence in the United States. (The shooting occurred four days before Jones was sworn in.)
Shortly after news of the shooting broke, United States President Barack Obama pledged to ensure the perpetrators would be held responsible. [64] Obama ordered flags at the White House, all public buildings and all military and naval posts, stations and vessels to be flown at half-staff until sunset on September 20. [65]
Police respond to a shooting at Richneck Elementary School, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023 in Newport News, Va. A shooting at a Virginia elementary school sent a teacher to the hospital and ended with “an ...
Heritage High School, established in 1996, is a public school in Newport News, Virginia. The school is home to the Heritage Hurricanes, and its colors are maroon and silver. The school is also home to the Newport News Public Schools Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) magnet program, as well as the University magnet program.
January 12, 2023 at 11:35 AM. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The shooting of a first-grade teacher by a 6-year-old boy has plunged the nation into uncharted waters of school violence, with many in the ...