{"id":1804978,"date":"2023-01-13T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804978"},"modified":"2023-01-13T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:13:45","slug":"virginia-school-official-aware-that-6-year-old-may-have-been-armed-before-teacher-was-shot-superintendent-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-school-official-aware-that-6-year-old-may-have-been-armed-before-teacher-was-shot-superintendent-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia School Official Aware That 6-Year-Old May Have Been Armed Before Teacher Was Shot, Superintendent Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-school-official-aware-that-6-year-old-may-have-been-armed-before-teacher-was-shot-superintendent-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804978&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a> Before a teacher was, a school administrator knew about a possible weapon on campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/screamed-at-her-kids-to-run-away-6-year-old-shoots-his-1st-grade-teacher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 6-year-old shot the photo<\/a>, according to the school\u2019s superintendent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>George Parker, Superintendent of Newport News Public Schools, told parents Thursday evening \u201cat least one\u201d Before Abigail Zwerner, first grade teacher, was killed last week, a school official knew of a possible gun on Richneck Elementary School&#8217;s campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least one administrator was notified of a possible weapon in the timeline that we\u2019re reviewing and was aware that that student had, there was a potential that there was a weapon on campus,\u201d Parker shared his thoughts with parents during a meeting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/local-news\/newport-news\/newport-news-superintendent-provides-new-details-in-richneck-school-shooting-at-town-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According<\/a> WAVY-TV footage.<\/p>\n<p>Zwerner is stable after being shot in his chest while trying to seize a weapon from a student. Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew stated that the shooting took place on Friday. Zwerner was trying to seize a weapon from a student. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/6-year-old-unlikely-charged-teachers-shooting-parents-experts-say-rcna65176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Was<\/a> \u201cintentional\u201d This is no accident.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zwerner was accused of shooting Zwerner in the backpack. The backpack was apparently searched prior to the shooting but no weapons were discovered. Parker stated that the school may require students to use clear plastic backpacks after the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent said that he was also consulting with Uvalde Texas school officials to improve school safety. \u201cWe\u2019ve been in contact with Uvalde in Texas who have been very gracious in communicating with us,\u201d He told his parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s incident was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PvogJIa9EUo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Third shooting<\/a> The last three years have been very difficult for the Virginia school system. Two people were injured at Heritage High School and one died at Menchville High School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The district will install metal detectors in schools as a response. This move has been applauded by some parents. \u201cMetal detectors in every school and every single entryway is a step. Empowering our teachers to take back their classrooms and get rid of disruptive students is a start. But once again, it comes back to the culture. If the teachers don\u2019t feel like they\u2019re being heard and if the teachers and the students don\u2019t feel safe, they can\u2019t teach and they can\u2019t learn,\u201d Tom Aman, parent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/local-news\/newport-news\/newport-news-superintendent-provides-new-details-in-richneck-school-shooting-at-town-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> 10 for Your Side.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-year old student is unlikely to face any criminal charges, but experts say his mom might, according to NBC News. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia school administrator knew of a possible weapon on campus before a teacher was shot by a 6-year-old, according to the school\u2019s superintendent.\u00a0 Newport News Public Schools Superintendent George Parker told parents Thursday evening that \u201cat least one\u201d school official was aware of a potential gun on the campus of Richneck Elementary School before &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1804981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10652,4392,13142,6202,4808,3924,4049,8199,4698,5468,6195],"class_list":["post-1804978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-6-year-old","tag-armed","tag-aware","tag-daily","tag-official","tag-school","tag-shot","tag-superintendent","tag-teacher","tag-virginia","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}