The lawyer of Abigail Zwerner, who was shot by her 6-year-old student at a Virginia elementary school, announced a lawsuit against the Newport News school district in her first public statement. NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor reports on the main points of the lawsuit and about how Zwerner texted a loved one that the student had a gun.
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that information proves parents lied,did parents tell child he couldn’t get in trouble at his age!???
they know n still hiding the racial hate n motivation for this shooting
The school def need to be held accountable
This kid was a future Democrat
Parents and the kid need to be charged with a hate crime
Welp she wont ever have to step foot in a school again! $
The school district, the parents, your country, your society, your race… Not one of you is prepared for what’s coming.
What’s coming?
Let’s see the kid…I’d settle for seeing the mom. Buuuut. Doesn’t fit the narrative huh?
If there was real concern, why rely on administration to respond? Call the dam police, that’s what 911 is for.
I teach at a school that the administrators fail to act.
When I went to school students had no right to say they couldn’t be searched. The administration’s job was to keep the school safe and it was in their right to search if they needed to. If you didn’t like it you could stay home.
Kid had to be black otherwise at the very least his parents pictures would be all over the news
Also, the school is responsible for letting this kid attend school period. Clearly, the kid has mental issues – home school is the answer. You don’t let a kid with severe mental issues into a school if the parents have to attend with their kid. The statement of the mother is disgusting. The gun could NOT have been secured properly if this six-year-old mental issue kid got it.She knows full well what his mental problems are and when you have a kid like that in the home, you don’t get to have a gun, that should be the law of the land.
No
Whatever about finding the gun at home and playing with it but what on earth prompted him to bring it to school with him and shoot his teacher, did someone tell him to do it, a child couldn’t come up with that himself unless he was exposed to something on the TV. I can’t even image it in my mind, a child shooting a teacher..
Students need to be Ready-To- Learn or do not go to school. Bad behavior violates the right of all other students in the school to learn!
This crazy not school fault it’s the parents
Did the teacher call the student’s parents with her concerns at any time before the shooting or when she felt threatened by the scholar? If yes, what was the parent’s reaction?
Black males and boys are the only group that’s protected, supported, defended, coddled, and spoiled by the black community. Black folks love to sweep things under the rug for them. It’s not a surprise that the adult males are the lowest performing group of males.
Imagine interviewing for a teacher’s job there after this and when they get around to the end of the interview and they ask: “Now do you have any questions you’d like to ask of us?”
I’d love to be the interviewee and slam them with about a hundred questions regarding teacher safety and policy and followup etc. Maybe we should start a list of questions here and keep it running just so that someone would have the material necessary for any teacher job interview. But Richneck Elementary should be on every teacher’s blacklist….I imagine they may have to import teachers from Israel with their own machine guns from now on. They won’t be able to find anyone else that is willing to take the job unless they’re allowed to protect themselves.
Welcome to our crazy new world…. WTH!??! 6yr old with gun…
This can’t be happening it’s all ways the gun fault
You all know there is a very specific reason why this is not being plastered everywhere, anyone care to guess why?
Why isn’t race mentioned?
A black kid shot a Jewish woman?
Hate Crime Hate Crime.
Give them jail time and set a precedent.
They should start putting metal detectors in the schools!
I loved being a school librarian and teacher. But each year was a little worse. I’m glad I retired and do not recommend the profession to anyone.
Parents expect teachers to do it all. Then get triggered over a picture book or mask or something small.
When I was younger, I thought about becoming a teacher, but I decided against it, remembering a lot of the nasty jerks that I had no choice to attend public school with. I didn’t realize how bad it would eventually get, and in retrospect I’m glad I didn’t pursue that career choice.
god bless her, and god bless this mess
I’m a teacher. If I suspect a child has a gun in their backpack I get the backpack and look.
Where is all of the racist at who thought the kid was black 🏏 🦗
Everyone needs to be strapped
This story makes absolutely no sense.
Teachers are REQUIRED to notify CPS if they have reason to believe or suspect child abuse or neglect. Why didn’t they? The kid was 6 years old…. why didnt they ask the kid to hand the backpack to them?
What kind of adult does nothing when they think a 6 year old has a gun ” in a back pack ” Have they not seen a 6 year old try to get ANYTHING out of a back pack….it takes forever.
Treat the kid like an adult
The school administration and staff sound more dumb than the 6 year old who sneaked a gun inside school.
The school officials That did nothing should do jail time
False flag
Glad the teacher will be Ok. Big pay day coming for this teacher.
Kid did nothing wrong DEFUND THE ENTIRE VIRGINIA SCHOOL SYSTEM
I could not allow my child to continue to attend this school with the way they disregarded the teachers concerns.
I most definitely have to agree with you myself working in the school system for 12 years just left a year ago. Although I miss a lot of my students, my safety and frustration level was the ultimate reasons why I had to walk away and find a whole new career.
This happens all the time with administrators not listening to their teachers and teachers getting injured because of these horrible kids and their even worse parents
Does that mean it was warned 4 times that morning??? Or 4 times in the past week, month, semester????
Went to a PRA meeting, I was standing in the hall waiting my turn with the teacher when a different class walked by all the kids where grinning except the last little girl, poor thing already had the snubs from crying, the over weight female teacher was slurring the little girl because her parents were on welfare. Wish I had turned her in..
Sue them and take everything. The parents belong in jail and put the kid in there with them
This is happening due to woke administration
I’m a senator Bernie Sanders supporter and more money for wars and senator Bernie Sanders is still pushing Medicare for all and policy to help the American people
Definitely the parents need to be charged.
I sure hope both parents are in jail at this time and remain there till the hearing is completed. Then they should be assigned to do the time for attempted murder.
still want to know why this student felt it necessary to take a gun to school and shoot a teacher.
It would be nice if a reporter could actually get the actual “facts” … and time line straight .. .. .. instead of all the conjectures and theories…. Facts and a timeline with names of those involved…. .. The. could have ,should have ,maybe this, maybe that …. Might have, but didn’t know ? …..
it’s probably going to take a year to get the facts out there….. and another year before it’s acted upon ..
Then another year before a justifiable charge is laid …… court proceedings ..and another year goes by ,
It will get to the point where the kid will be able to argue in court that it was self defence…. While in a state of mental anxiety…and of diminished capacity……. America has had , the fact proven that. They are not smarter than a 5th grader …. On a good day ….
Bring back stop and frisk: If a six-year-old can get through the system, imagine others?
If the boy was searched n nothing found there would be discrimination lawsuits against everyone.
If I wanted to set you ablaze & watch you die. Then, I obtained a gun & shot you. Would it be fair to say that I hated you? The question must be asked: Why did the kid hate her so much?
teaching while white
Maybe the if teacher hadn’t told the little boy he needs puberty blockers and having his Johnson chopped off.
Flame throwers are completely legal and require no permit
I’ve been to this school. I live in this area. I’m enraged but not surprised. I pulled both my children out of the school system because my son was receiving death threats (in ELEMENTARY school) and my daughter was repeatedly assaulted while staff did nothing. She ended up with a damaged spleen (she required medical care and is still traumatized, I wasn’t even told because she just needed to “ignore them and they’d leave her alone”. She finally told me what was happening when I found a bruise. The teachers in both cases did what they could. It was the administration that refused to act. The kid doing it admitted it so it wasn’t a case of who to believe. I’ll never forget walking out of the school the day I found out past a bulletin board full of antibullying posters. 😡
My heart goes out to you and your child! I wish that you had sued the school too.
@Kim T Thank you for your kindness.
What about the Parents ?? They should be charged also.. They bought the gun, the 6 year old certainly didn’t…..
Some people won’t believe it’s a bomb until it explodes.
The young lady at the desk DID ask her colleague Yanice (?)
to report how the teacher was doing.
As a viewer that question being answered was important to me, she didn’t address it.
The little gangster probably learned how to use a gun right after he learned how to play with his nuts while trying to keep his diaper from falling down
Wait a minute, so the teacher knew that the kid (might) have a gun and felt the school wasn’t doing enough to make sure? Why didn’t the teach get the kids book bag and search it herself??? I mean teachers are the first line of defence and they praised her for being heroic and yet she herself didn’t do enough knowing the kid might have a gun and look where it got her, shot..
MY WAY AT LOOKING AT THIS.THERES A REASON WHY THIS LITTLE BOY DID IT?WHAT DID THE TEACHER DO TO THIS LITTLE BOY?
You are an goof
Is the mother White, and the boy half Black?
A 6 year old shooting their teacher is incomprehensible….the parents and the school should definitely be held accountable…may this teacher heal from this…I just can’t imagine how that child will be able to thrive after what he just did!
What would make a child dislike their teacher so much? Why didn’t the safety people act?
Liberal Administrators failed, go figure. Never take threats seriously.
>Muh libs
Just keep in mind that this child will be returning to the public school system. Would you want your child in the same class?
Of course the administration ignored issues. This is always the case. I am sure the teacher informed parents of the issues too, yet most parents and administrations do nothing. Then, they wonder why these kinds of things are happening on a daily basis, across the country! No one is disciplining this generation of kids. Kids are being raised by technology. I am always the bad guy, when as a teacher, I am the only one who is giving these brats a good talking to. That is all I do, and I get called in to see the principal every other week! Today, I was informed that two brats, who are never in class to learn anything, were taken out of my classroom because parents complained again. Good, those are two less brats I need to discipline because their parents won’t! The kids who remain in my class are always the ones who have good parents who actually spend time with them and discipline them when needed. It is evident! I am happy to have a classroom full of kids who deserve to be there, because they have good work ethic, manners, respect, and kindness. I just feel sorry for the teachers who now have to deal with those parents and kids! Moving the kids around to different classrooms and schools is not the answer, they just become a problem to someone else.
its true i work for a high school and we are not allowed to look in boo bags , scary
sounds like the cops letting all the kids in Texas getting shot before going in, why let this keep happening? they’re playing us
Parents don’t parent today.
Has nothing to do with gun laws either.
Pay her.
Either this was a loaded gun lying around where it should not have been, or if it was not, how would a six year old know how to load one? There seem to be many unanswered questions here from home and school.
6-Year OLD ? ? ? ? What is wrong with this world ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Its more whats wrong with america. Too many guns maybe?
In a country awash in guns always assume there is a gun around. Like the cops do.
I’d take her bullet for what she’s going to bank after this lawsuit 😂
sending Thoughts and Prayers in advance to everyone lives in a G un In fested count three…
its only a matter of when gonna be your turn..
Is this American dream?
Karens are so dramatic How are yall getting bullied by a 6 year old😆
Why whenever a white BOY shoots up a school, or does some terroristic white nationalism type of stuff that gets other kids killed,
Why isnt the parents or their upbringing never brought into light? Somehow tho they’ll blame lebron for this
A lot of school shootings have red flags and warning signs ignored nowadays.
A little over a week ago, there was a young boy who was found waving a gun around at an apartment complex. He didn’t sh00t anyone, but his father was arrested and charged with a felony that night. Also despite being a minor, that little boy’s image has been all over the news.
Contrast that to this case where the media is being very careful not to identify the attempted mvrderer or his family and no arrests have been made. One guess what the difference is.
I’ve seen the image of this boy. Only the ny post showed it. There is a difference in the two cases through. The other one you mentioned shows the pic of the child actively waving the gun.
@ola abi wrong. multiple media sites are showing the video. and the difference shouldn’t matter if all children are treated with the same expectation of privacy. obviously this one has been granted a privilege that one did not. and you know exactly why
Mayo v. Basketball
Have the “administrators” who were informed of the situation been named??????
Only one, the assistant principal Ebony Parker, and only because she decided to get ahead of the blowback she rightly deserves and resigned.
Early retirement Enjoy you deserve it
Hope she wins millions
These Administrators are known to ignore dangerous behavior, as they are worried about attendance, it’s all about numbers with them. They are also scared to address parents so they IGNORE. Sue and send a message to all of them.
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This is why public schools are failing, why would you leave such child to interact with other children? – rampant organizational failures in a bloated institution with no safeguards or controls, shabby and misguided performance metrics, and administrators dealing with a new generation of very troubled children that shouldn’t be in school. Some needs to investigate the rise of a growing number of aggressive, violent, bullying children in America and what’s being done about it before they grow up to do more harm.
People get shot all the time why this lady getting all over the news,😒
People don’t get shot all the time by murderous 6 year olds.
6 years old?! How man. Now I am avidly against guns. If a 6 year old can get a their hands on a gun theirs a problem
How about a law where when you are on public school property, you automatically consent to a random search of your bag, purse or coat if deemed appropriate—just like entering through airport security, entering Disney World, or entering a government facility such as court? If you want to be there, it is just understood your belongings could be searched.
The kid with the gun, his parents will also be suing the school
Kid needs taken away from parents and parents need to go to jail along with the school administrators!!
better teach such kids online
Imminent danger from a 6 year old? Alrighty then.
DeSatan hates teachers, he thinks they are indoctrinating your children, because they have slightly better benefits than a GOP corporate slave. Imagine that, while the GOP calculates the profits of Chinese manufacturing of your expensive apple phone… Just look at the facts of rush limburger and his recommended investments.
So I’m confused, why didn’t the teacher who was shot search the bag herself if she was worried and had suspicions?