A Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student in Jan. 2023 successfully sued a former school administrator she accused of ignoring warning signs.

Abigail Zwerner was shot once in the hand and the chest in her first-grade classroom at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News. She was hospitalized for two weeks, and the boy's mother was later convicted on gun charges.

'A gun changes everything. You stop and you investigate. ... You get to the bottom of it to know whether that gun is real and on campus so you can deal with it. But that's not what happened.'

Zwerner's civil lawsuit accused former assistant principal Ebony Parker of ignoring several warnings, including one from Zwerner herself. The teacher told Parker that the student had been in a "violent mood" and threaten

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