The first grade teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia earlier this year is no longer working for the school, according to a spokesperson for Newport News Public Schools.
Abby Zwerner was shot in the hand and chest as she sat at a reading table in her classroom in January at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, a city near the Chesapeake Bay in southeast Virginia.
Police say the boy, who has not been publicly identified, used his mother’s 9mm handgun gun, which was purchased legally, in the “intentional” shooting.
