Elementary teacher shot by six-year-old student speaks out about challenges faced
In an exclusive interview with Abigail Zwerner, the first grade teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student, tells NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie about the challenges she’s facing after the incident. Anne Thompson has more details.
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She needs to sue.
I know administrators can be incompetent, but I cannot wrap my head around being notified that there is a gun at school and turning a blind eye. That is next level incompetence. These people should never be around children
It happened in Michigan too, administration was warned and ignored, except four students were murdered. Those parents are in jail however
Nobody wanted to search the kid for the gun because they didn’t want to be accused of racism.
NBC… Race is never mentioned unless it’s a white child.
America 🇺🇸
His parents need to answer for this
I’m all for sueing the school, but why no mention of the mom who let her 6-year-old special-needs son, go to school with her pistol?
Sometimes children are just a bad investment, and then there’s how was this not preventable???C,MON PEOPLE WTF!!!.
Was the kid an aspiring rapper?
Country rap aka Emo Farm or something…. Lots of base and guitar with the word beer in it.
Yep.
Watermelanin-american 🍉🍗🤛🏿
bizarre propaganda when our economic collapse fueled by military industrial complex and big pharma ignored
NRA statement: “you know what stops a bad child with a gun, a good child with a gun”. When is this abhorrent sociopathic ideology going to end. I am so sick of it. Just take away the guns… from everyone. countries that implement this have way less deaths, way less incidents. America has a cocaine mindset, and we need to come back down to earth, right now. Stop putting your need to have a firearm over the lives of this school teacher over the thousands of lives of children. wake the f up.
You’re out of touch with reality and definitely history. Mao Zedong, Castro, Stalin, Hitler. What’s the number one leading cause of death? “Democide”. When people don’t have weapons how will they protect themselves from governments. Those people I named killed 60 million of their own people. Totalitarianism is dangerous. Governments with too much power.
3 staffers knew he had a gun but did nothing about it. Pathetic, they are part of the administration too, u can just hide from the situation, you need to resolve it personally
No NBC news
SKULL TO VOICE TECHNOLOGY 💀
Look at that hot Revlon Red Dollar General hair dye hair…. Do you know this means? That kid that shot her is going to get hexs placed on his little but by this lady lmao. NO Judge can stop those. That’s 1st amendment territory there folks. Speedy recovery ma’am.
This is a parenting issue.
Yall really chose the wrong thumbnail, unless it’s plain out joyous to hear about another gun accident
School cared more about concealing data about violent students and enrollment/attendance percentages than anything else. Its a problem seen across the country, especially exacerbated by the pro black and hispanic racism of the school districts. If the kid was white they would’ve treated him significantly different no doubt about it.
I hope she gets a settlement,at least enough that she doesn’t have to step in a classroom unless she wants to. And the child’s parents should be in jail.
*Remove the guns from among us.*
Age or not give him the death penalty it’ll make less kids do shooting most do it knowing nothing will happen make a example out them and it’ll happen less
Does anyone know WHY that kid WANTED to shoot THAT teacher????
Was it ever explained?
Still milking this story, huh?
Faaaake
she shoulda had a gun to blast back lol
so how many times does this has to happen? This is ridiculous!!!!!!!!
She did something to this Sweet Child’to make him angry.. I do hope the Child is ok.🙏🏾
Many many people did things that made me angry when I was 6 years old.
And 5 years old. And Seven years old.
8
9
10 . . . never SHOT anybody
@Elhastezy This is A Different world we live in today.. is this Baby getting the professional counseling’ to get him through this very tough ordeal for him? He probably having terrible nightmares.🙏🏾
Get over it. She is advertising. So, she can start an of account
QUICK BAN 6 YEAR OLDS!
A 6 year old shoot’s a teacher…. Everything is fine, American society is fine.
6 year old are domestic terrorists
Where’s the PARENTS ACCOUNTABILITY. Thank GOD she’s alive. ❤️👍💯
All teachers needs support and protection 🙏🙏🙏 hope all schools adds police officer and have bag search 24/7
Why there is no explanation is disturbing
United states mental state is degrading to negative numbers
Parents and admin should absolutely be held accountable. This should not happen. This should never happen again.
Who’s responsible for that child until they are 18? Yup the parents, charge them👍
> shot by black kid whose parents taught him White people are evil
> Leftoid media ignores every aspect of this
notice the pattern
I’m glad I quit teaching ☺
Charge his parents, simple
That’s absolutely sickening 😢
Anyone that ignored the gun warning should be done working with schools.
These are the consequences when you remove Jesus Christ from our schools and society.
That little kid doesn’t deserve to get recess and no Lunchables good idea if you’re a preschool teacher if you wear a bulletproof vest she’s not going to hold them back let him shoot their first grade teacher next year how did he buy a gun did he use a fake ID that gun store employee better get his eyes checked
It is agonizing that America-does not have gun control laws. Until then, Children must be screened like at Airports
The studentsparents need to be held accountable.
So what was she doing to that kid to get shot? She looks like a molester.
Is she going to tell how she bullied a 6 year old!!! 🙄🤨🤡
You got a source to back that claim?
Her lawsuit is going to be a slam dunk! I wish her all the best! Hopefully her lawsuit will be a wake-up call to all school districts that they need to get their acts together.
Republicans and thier 2nd amendment lol
Take away all guns
Yes we need the government to take the guns so we can wind up like the joos during the holocaust
So…the reason is just gonna stay left out I take it? Or did the kid just show up with their parent’s gun and think it was a toy?
Parents should be charged , there should be consequences. If you have firearms they must be kept safe
Can’t trust literally anyone now geez
Sue that boy parents too
Not even kids like liberals
I can’t believe they didn’t punish the boy
I heard that his teacher called him by his incorrect pronoun
Lock up the boy for attempted murder and his parents for negligence
Teachers shouldn’t have to wear kevlar to class
Bro really shot at a blonde 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ somebody teach ’em
It’s awful that this happened. Looks like she needs more to deal with this, But can WE move on?
They need to go after the parents and the school district! Somebody’s got to be held accountable
Quite honestly at this point I think that the parents of the six-year-old need to be held accountable
I agree with the decision to not charge the 6 year old shooter. That is so young that he really didn’t understand the situation. Someone has to be heald accountable though. The parents and the school probably.
Who tf is checking a six year old bag for a gun? Say what u want, but this was not preventable.
Sue that district for all you can get
How come the parents were not charged? But the other boy who shot people his parents were charged and are in jail???
Apart from the obvious response – why aren’t the parents being held legally responsible for the incident? – a few questions scream for answers. I understand that the boy is too young to charge with a crime, but surely his parents should not have been allowed to have a gun when they had a young child with an “acute disability”? Who “tipped off the school” if not the parent or parents? How did a six-year-old manage to conceal a handgun in spite of searches? If this incident had happened in Europe, Australia, Japan or pretty much any developed country, the parents would be in custody and wouldn’t even be allowed bail, while the child would be removed and taken into care.
Someone needs to be held accountable. The school AND the parents because somehow he got the gun and it’s BS that it was stored properly because it wasn’t.
The big question is where is that evil little monster going to be in 15 years?
They should have listened to the teacher the first time she said a student had a gun and she was shot and wounded because they didn’t listen she should charge the school and the parents of the child for her injuries
No the parents need to be charged
Huh, she cute, don’t care about them “challenges” though. Dang! 25!? I thought she was 35… her attorney is hot though
We created this when we took the Bible and prayers out of the schools. Falls in the same time frame. Welcome to the new America.
The Administrators and Parents need to be charged for their negligence in allowing this to happen, bottom line.
Thank God she’s Ok My prayers for her 🙏
25?! She look old asf. They age like a glass of milk.
Think Abby’s mom is a Pearl Jam fan?
Look at the media pushing their agenda for their higher-ups.
Open your eyes people and don’t let the wolves run you like pigeons. Once we let them take our rights to own guns then we slowly lose the freedoms of self defense. Media is thier powerful TOOL to control the masses
I wonder the race of the kid…?!
I don’t…
I hope they never release this 6 year old turd eater in free society again.
This is a big reason why I haven’t applied for the public school system. It’s a terrifying time to be an educator.
Sucks for her! At least she is gonna make so much money to pay for all those therapists
Could you imagine the trauma the other kids have?? Their parents should sue too!
The parents should be changed, because that kid was taught how to shoot a gun, I blamed the father, he acted so surprised, like really😠
As always the news media always enjoys a sad tragedy😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
How many cartons of cigarettes does SG smoke a week, anyway. She’s got the voice of an 80 year old woman
It’s simple – charge the parents.
Which shithole state did this happen in?
She seem sus tbh
Woman is gunna get PAID!
She looks nothing like this picture
Shes 🔥 🔥 🔥
what race was the kid
MSNBC pays its HOSTS like Joy Reid to push ANTI WHITENESS every nite.
Now NBC wants to report on the story of a crazy black kid that shot his white teacher while acting all innocent.
Bot surprised the black child or his mom won’t be getting charged.
The parents should be in jail, the staff that was responsible for searching the boy should be fired as well
Arm more children! Keep our teachers in line! ….. Wait what?
The parents know the laws right?
“Parent”, not “parents”. There is no father. There never is.
If someone is notified of having a gun and they find the student that has it but can’t find it, they shouldn’t just let them go. Then need to detain them and search more carefully until they can be 100% he has no gun and was a false alarm. Until then, the person should not be set free
I just do not understand why the gun wasn’t taken off the student if they knew he had it… this could have all been prevented. Thank goodness the teacher is still alive it could have been much worse. The parents have a lot to blame for this also and the school. Both parties should be held accountable.
Heroic six-years-old
Still dying to know..what did she say to him?