A 6-year-old pupil shot and wounded a Virginia instructor Friday throughout an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and college officers within the metropolis of Newport Information mentioned.
No college students have been injured within the taking pictures at Richneck Elementary College, police mentioned. The instructor — a girl in her 30s — suffered life-threatening accidents. Newport Information Police Chief Steve Drew instructed reporters that her situation had improved considerably by late afternoon.
Police mentioned the kid had a handgun within the classroom and that they took that pupil into custody.
“We didn’t have a state of affairs the place somebody was going across the faculty taking pictures,” Drew instructed reporters. “We’ve got a state of affairs in a single explicit location the place a gunshot was fired.”
He added that the taking pictures was not an accident.
Mother and father and college students have been reunited at a gymnasium door, Newport Information Public Colleges mentioned on Fb.
Newport Information is a metropolis of about 185,000 individuals in southeastern Virginia identified for its shipyard, which builds the nation’s plane carriers and different U.S. Navy vessels.
Richneck has about 550 college students who’re in kindergarten via fifth grade, in keeping with the Virginia Division of Training’s web site. College officers have already mentioned that there can be no lessons on the faculty on Monday.
