*The superintendent and principal are no longer working at the Virginia school where a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher.
Dr. Ebony Parker, the school’s vice principal, has resigned from her position and Superintendent Dr. George Parker III was terminated Wednesday, SandraRose.com reports.
Abigail Zwerner, 25, was shot in front of her first-grade students at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News. The boy, who allegedly suffers from a mental disorder, pulled out a gun and shot her in the chest on Jan. 6. The teacher has filed a lawsuit against the school district, Zwerner’s attorney Dianne Toscano announced in a press conference on Wednesday.
According to Toscano, prior to the shooting, at least three school employees were informed that the boy had a gun. But the warning was allegedly ignored.
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Abigail Zwerner, the teacher who was shot by a six-year-old, says school administrators failed to act despite multiple warnings the child was armed.
The school’s assistant principal has since resigned and Wednesday night, the school board voted to remove the superintendent. pic.twitter.com/V0o6qUhs8X
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Toscano said that on the day of the shooting, a teacher searched the boy’s backpack but no gun was found. The teacher, believing the child put the gun in his pocket, informed a school administration who allegedly dismissed the concern, saying the 6th grader “has little pockets.”
Prior to his termination, superintendent Dr. George Parker said in a news conference that he was “disheartened” by the shooting
“We need to educate our children and we need to keep them safe,” Parker said, CNN reports.
“We need the community’s support, continued support, to make sure that guns are not available to youth and I’m sounding like a broken record today, because I continue to reiterate that: that we need to keep the guns out of the hands of our young people,” Parker continued.
In a statement to BuzzFeed, the boy’s mother said he requires a “care plan” that calls for one of his parents to sit with him in class. According to the mother, the child has “an acute” behavioral disorder. Police say the boy took his mother’s gun from home with him to school that fateful day. This happened to be the first week that neither parent was with him in class, his mother said.
The child is reportedly receiving treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
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