According to the Newport News police chief, the Virginia teacher who was purposefully shot in the chest by her six-year-old pupil on Friday afternoon is currently in a stable condition.
Abby Zwerner, 25, and her family were met by Chief Steve Drew this morning. On Saturday afternoon, he said in a statement that she was improving.
Zwerner, a first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School, was rushed to hospital with critical injuries on Friday after she was shot by a 6-year-old boy during an ‘altercation’ in a classroom. The child remains in police custody.
This afternoon, the Newport News Police Department released the following statement: “In relation to the shooting that occurred at Richneck Elementary School on January 6, Chief Steve Drew visited with the victim and her family this morning.
She has made progress, and her condition is now described as stable. Chief Drew kindly requested that you keep her in your prayers and thoughts.
A six-year-old student is currently in police custody, according to Drew, who made the announcement at a press conference on Friday. “This shooting was not an accident.”
He claimed that an altercation had occurred in a classroom. “We didn’t have a circumstance where someone was avoiding the shooting at the school.” In one particular place, there was an incident where a gunshot was discharged.
Just before 2pm, a shooting occurred at Richneck Elementary School, a school for children between the ages of five and nine. Police are investigating how the child acquired the gun because no children were wounded.
It is unknown if the student who was arrested today is the same one whose grandmother told DailyMail.com that a pupil brought “bright gold bullets” to school last week.
She told DailyMail.com that the parents outside had been informed by their child that a student had brought golden, shining bullets to school and was considering carrying a pistol. The student told the parent, who informed the school.
‘And the school just yesterday got back to the parent saying the parent of the kid said it was a nerf bullet and the parent said nerf bullets aren’t shiny and gold.’
She wasn’t certain if the kid who brought the “bullets” in was also the one who was supposedly shot today.
