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A jury awarded $10 million to a first-grade teacher shot by her 6-year-old student after an administrator failed to properly act on repeated gun warnings.

Zwerner underwent six surgeries, spent nearly two weeks hospitalized, and the bullet remains lodged near her heart; she lost full use of her left hand.

Former assistant principal Ebony Parker now faces a separate criminal trial on eight felony child neglect counts, each carrying up to five years in prison.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A jury in Virginia on Thursday awarded $10 million to a former teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student and later accused an ex-administrator in a lawsuit of ignoring repeated warnings that the child

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