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January 26, 2023

Schools Superintendent Fired over Missed Warnings After 6-Year-Old Shoots Teacher
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In Virginia, the Newport News School Board voted Wednesday to fire and
replace the current schools superintendent, less than three weeks after
a 6-year-old student shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School.
Twenty-five-year-old Abigail Zwerner faces a long road to recovery after
the first-grader shot her in the abdomen as she sought to confiscate the
weapon in her classroom on January 6. Zwerner's lawyer said Wednesday
school administrators repeatedly shrugged off warnings that the student
was making threats and appeared to have a gun.

Diane Toscano: "On that day, over the course of a few hours, three
different times - three times - school administration was warned by
concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the
school and was threatening people. But the administration could not be
bothered."



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