Austin, United States.- A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom on Friday, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said.
No students were injured in the shooting at Richneck Elementary School.
The teacher, a woman in her 30s, sustained life-threatening injuries. Her condition had improved somewhat by late afternoon, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said.
“We didn’t have a situation where someone was around the school shooting,” Drew clarified to reporters, later adding that the shooting was not an accident.
Drew said the student and teacher met in a classroom.
He claimed the boy had a gun in the classroom and that investigators were trying to find out where he got it. The police chief did not provide further details about the shooting or what happened inside the school.
Joselin Glover, whose son is in fourth grade, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper that she received a text from the school saying one person was shot and another was in custody.
“My heart stopped,” he confessed. “I didn’t believe it, I was very nervous. I was just wondering if that person was my son.”
