(CNN) — The $40 million civil trial brought by Abby Zwerner, a teacher shot by a 6-year-old student, against former Assistant Principal Ebony Parker, who is accused of ignoring warnings that the student had a gun, resumes Monday morning.

The case, which could set a precedent for holding school officials criminally accountable, comes ahead of Parker’s criminal trial next month on eight counts of felony child neglect.

On Thursday, the jury heard Zwerner testify that she thought she was going to die.

“I thought I was dying. I thought I had died,” the former first-grade teacher said as she recounted being shot in the hand and chest while sitting at a reading table in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, in January 2023.

A psychiatrist testified that Zwe

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