Dr. Ebony Parker Assistant principal resigns at Virginia school resigns

As allegations surface that the administration failed to act when forewarned about the armed pupil three times on the day of the shooting, The Post has discovered that the assistant principal at the Virginia school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher has resigned.

Michelle Price, the district’s spokeswoman, verified that Dr. Ebony Parker, the assistant principal at Newport News’ Richneck Elementary, had resigned. Parker was unavailable for comment on Wednesday.

Abigail Zwerner, a 25-year-old first-grader, was shot on January 6 by one of her pupils. According to Zwerner’s attorney Diana Toscano, three school staff had informed the administration in the hours before the event that the 6-year-old kid was in possession of a gun.

In the wake of the shooting, Parker is the first known administrator to resign.

Toscano claims that a worried teacher was advised by a school administration not to check the little kid for a pistol but rather to “wait the issue out because the school day was almost finished.”

Around 2 p.m. that day, the boy “intentionally” shot Zwerner, who was hit in the chest as the bullet passed through her hand, according to authorities.

Toscano claimed that at 11:15 a.m., the 25-year-old teacher had informed the school that the kid had threatened to assault one of his classmates.

“As an administrator it is our first priority to keep the students and staff safe, any and every threat must be taken seriously,” the administrator said.

“However, the forced resignation of one of the administrators from Richneck does not resolve the failure of the district as a whole to put procedures in place to prevent this from happening again.”

The boy who shot Zwerner used a gun his mother had purchased legally, police said. It’s unclear how he was able to get access to the weapon. Nobody has been charged in the incident, and the boy’s family said in a statement through the lawyer that he has an “acute disability.”

“Abby Zwerner was shot in front of those horrified kids, and the school and community are living the nightmare, all because the school administration failed to act,” Toscano said, adding that the district leaders “could not be bothered” to act.

A Newport News administrator who asked to remain anonymous told The Post it’s clear Richneck Elementary leadership “failed to keep [Zwerner] safe” but questioned the resignation.