NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Nearly three years after the shooting at Richneck Elementary School, teachers who witnessed the violence are sharing their side. Their testimony dominated the second day of trial in the $40 million lawsuit Abby Zwerner has filed against Newport News School Division.

A 6-year old boy shot Zwerner in her classroom towards the end of the school day on Jan. 6, 2023. Throughout the day, teachers said they received multiple warnings from their young students about the threat the boy posed.

"I told him, 'It's OK, you can tell me, I'm a teacher,'" said Jennifer West, a first-grade teacher at Richneck. "He was visibly scared, and said 'I can't, J.T. said he would hurt me, blow us up.'"

"Two little girls came up to me and said JT has a gun," said Amy Kovac, an educator of more

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