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| Six-year-old student shoots teacher | Six-year-old student shoots teacher |
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| The young boy has been identified as the suspect in a shooting allegedly done “on purpose” | The young boy has been identified as the suspect in a shooting allegedly done “on purpose” |
| A 6-year-old boy in Newport News, Virginia has reportedly shot and injured his elementary school teacher, putting her in the hospital with life-threatening injuries in an attack that police say was not an accident. | |
| The shooting occurred on Friday afternoon at Richneck Elementary School. Newport News police chief Steve Drew confirmed to reporters that the suspect was a 6-year-old boy. No one other than the boy’s teacher was injured, but police tactical teams entered the building in case the shooter still posed a threat. | |
| The boy was involved in “an altercation” with his teacher before shooting her with a handgun, Drew said. He’s in police custody. The teacher was identified only as a woman in her 30s. | The boy was involved in “an altercation” with his teacher before shooting her with a handgun, Drew said. He’s in police custody. The teacher was identified only as a woman in her 30s. |
| “We believe that once we walked in and had the information we had coming in (the school), we had the individual in custody,” Drew told reporters at a briefing outside the school. “We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting. We had a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.” | “We believe that once we walked in and had the information we had coming in (the school), we had the individual in custody,” Drew told reporters at a briefing outside the school. “We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting. We had a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.” |
| Police offered no further explanation about the altercation, nor did they say how the boy was able to obtain a handgun and bring it to school. | |
| A classmate of the unidentified suspect, a 6-year-old girl, told a Newport News Daily Press reporter that she witnessed the shooting. The female teacher was shot in the stomach area “on purpose,” she said, and the teacher “fell to her knees.” | A classmate of the unidentified suspect, a 6-year-old girl, told a Newport News Daily Press reporter that she witnessed the shooting. The female teacher was shot in the stomach area “on purpose,” she said, and the teacher “fell to her knees.” |
| Richneck Elementary has more than 550 students. According to National Center for Education Statistics data, 84% of the students come from families that are poor enough to qualify for free lunches. The school’s ratio of students to teachers is 57% higher than the state average. | Richneck Elementary has more than 550 students. According to National Center for Education Statistics data, 84% of the students come from families that are poor enough to qualify for free lunches. The school’s ratio of students to teachers is 57% higher than the state average. |
| Friday’s shooting came just three days after classes resumed at Richneck following the holiday break. US school shootings surged to a historic high last year, with 51 incidents that resulted in injuries or deaths. | |
| The youngest shooter to kill someone in a US school shooting was a 6-year-old Michigan boy who fatally shot a female classmate in February 2000. | The youngest shooter to kill someone in a US school shooting was a 6-year-old Michigan boy who fatally shot a female classmate in February 2000. |