The shooting was reported around 2 p.m. inside the school, Drew told reporters.
Drew called the response from the school's faculty and staff "heroic" in moving the students to the gymnasium and keeping everyone calm. Newport News is located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia, near Norfolk.Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones was on the scene Friday afternoon and said he would be staying overnight at the hospital.
One parent said her "heart stopped" when she heard the news of a shooting at her 9-year-old son's school.
It's steroids or something in our food supply. Either way serious studies needs to be conducted to find the common denominator to our youth longing to see death at such a young age.
Every schools including elementary schools should have more protection.
As sad as this shooting is, if gun control truly worked as well as many people claim, Chicago would not be a war zone! What we really need is to tone down the hatred across the board.
Are yall lying on your comment views
Parents need to be accountable, even if someone else put a gun in their hands, at that age one should be aware who your child is associating with…
Was this self-defense Was this a good guy with a gun? What say you gun lovers
No
The child targeted the teacher so he premeditated the shooting. However, the parents are responsible for securing the gun access from their children. Wondering what they are teaching their children about guns?
sandyhook HTF does this happen?
The child must've been vaccinated
Who let a 6 year old get ahold of a gun.
It's pathetic for some of you to politicize this soul wrenching situation,others place blame on Rap and Viedo games. It's all of OUR fault! We've done nothing these last 2.5 years but shown our children hate, sanctioning events such as Jan 6th. USA souls in pieces, not at PEACE!
Explain to me like I'm a 5 year old does a 6 year gets their hands on a gun
Cross Cross applesauce gone wrong😩
Parents must be held responsible
So sad indeed for a 6 years old! I wish a quick recovery for the teacher🙏
Please tell me the parents are in jail. Scum bags
How does a 6 yr. old know how to pull a gun out and shoot anyone during an altercation, unless he’s been taught,or he has seen it done numerous times. The parent(s) should be held accountable.
The NRA just hired a 1000 more lawyers!!!!
Parents need to be held 100% accountable!
6 years old!! Wtf 😳
I can't even.
Did I read that right ? SIX YEAR OLD?! While this is extremely troublesome and unacceptable, I also wonder what the kid was going through or if it was repetitive altercation that the kid shows up with a gun one day ! Absolutely unbelievable and unacceptable.
WTF?
Put those parents in jail
Not the guns fault. Hang the entire family. Safer world move on.
The only way to stop a bad kindergartner with a gun is to arm all of the good kindergartners. No longer will the children be forced to nap by the tyrannical teacher nannies. Viva la resistance!
Would love to know how many times the teacher and other staff members expressed concerns about this child only to have it fall on deaf ears.
Why wouldn't everyone else I worked with in OEHHA be evaluated to see if they are a physical or verbal threat since this is the type of country they want to live in? Oh, right, because they actively and intentionally try to murder their coworkers.
Must be the guns fault
GravyGravy91 abc LMFAOO stop talking
Excuse me what? A SIX YEAR OLD?
First of all how in the living world this child had access to a gun, CPS wake up, its going to many stories like this, this is forever a trauma to this child would have to live with...Lock the so called guardians of this child up!!
NEQueensNY The kid was just imitating American adults. What else are guns for? (SARCASM)
Arrest whoever owned the gun. They now should be facing a minimum of 25yrs in prison. You want to own a gun? Fine. You now have responsibilities, duties & consequences for your failure to act like a responsible gun owner. Period. There. Is. No. Excuse. For. It.
This was the fault of this little boy and his parents playing in sample they were not supervising him correctly that gun did not walk out of the house and shoot another person
Everyone here should look up the following event CHOPPADAY 2022. A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE ON HOW TONS OF PEOPLE CAN GET TOGETHER WITH GUNS AND NO ONE DIES! IF ALL THESE PEOPLE CAN GET TOGETHER AND SAFELY USE GUNS HOW DO PEOPLE KEEP BLAMING GUNS WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN?
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Wtf...6!!! Not just having a gun but the lack of morals or is that no longer important? 😢
But my rights!🙄
The child most likely either found that gun, because they get tossed away or dropped, so kids can stumble across one. They can find there Big brothers gun, just as bad. Or Parents being irresponsible with there firearm. Children are in make believe mode. Movies mislead kids too.
Start putting metal detectors in schools
But if the teacher had the gun to protect themselves and other students and shot the 6 year old in self defense we’d probably hear hell about that too
And in some districts, they would want us to shoot back.
This has to politically staged.
Aren't guns like heavy as heck? As an adult, I can barely hold a gun up to shoot it. How does a 6 year old have the strength to carry a gun and lift/shoot it? It's Jeremiah Johnsons cousin right? This is absolutely on the parents. My prayers to the teacher. Gun reform laws now.
Look freeloader Dave here pay me 1 dollar for every gun I confiscate and the shootings will end and I will be a multi millionaire problem solved!
I have so many questions! Access is one of them. Then he left home undetected, entered school undetected, was able to load or was it loaded!?!? And then able to fire it! I am over 55, I don't think I could load a gun nor aim nor fire it!! Parents 100% responsible in so many ways!
The parents should be arrested for the kids actions. No way that a 6 year old should have access to a gun.
Pritzker in Illinois, is going to run with this. The government raising our children, isn't working. Example 'A'!
Its a stolen firearm. Sounds like juvvie for him. If he hit the teacher with a hammer would you want the parents prosecuted
A 6 year old! What do you even do with a 6 year old “in custody”? Insane.
Yes that is tragic the parents should be charged
Heart breaking- parents not being parents 💔🙏🏻 prayers for the teacher and all the children that witnessed and the child who pulled the trigger. 😔
Prayers for the Teacher w/ LIFE THREATENING INJURIES IJMN AMEN 🙏 Shame on media & local officials -- 'students...most important'thing' we have'. Um, TEACHERS' LIVES MATTER! This poor Teacher's life has likely been ruined by someone's brat! Jail Time 4 brats & PARENTS of brats!
Presumably this little criminal will be tried as an adult and spend the rest of his life in prison where he can’t hurt anyone else?
I wonder if a four year old with an AR 15 could have stopped this shooter. 🤔
What could the teacher be doing so bad to this child that the child thinks the teacher deserves a bullet?
WTH? Who pissed this baby tot off This is scary. Someone evidently taught this kid how to shoot. Where can they put this little criminal? 😲😲😲
How on earth does a 6 year old have access to a gun, let alone how to shoot? Where are we heading?
The Childs Parents Are Trump Supporters & Republician & Lilly White. Had The Child Been Black, All Types Of Monster Or Savage He Would Be Called. This Is White Privilege 😡
Kid's Dad probably has a shrine to Rittenhouse and tRump
I will never be the same after this..... 6!?!? W t actual f!
Well congrats to the media again: if you wouldn’t make such a big deal of it, sure there would be less shootings. Craving attention is half the problem and a 6yr old would prob. never have heard of it. Sadly he never learned to solve conflict and school failed to see his issues.
NRA statement later that day when asked to comment : “the only way to stop a 6 years old with a gun is to give every 6 years old a gun”. 50% discount on all semi-automatic to all kids of that age while supplies last
6.... Wtf? How?
Gun control pfff.. They just needed a 6 year old 'good guy with a gun'. *cough*
The parents should be charged with child endangerment, criminal negligence, and assault on that teacher. Then maybe they'll start acting like responsible parents.
Rock solid proof parents and their kids aren't more irresponsible than they were in the 1950s How are we moving so far backwards?
This is clearly the parents fault not the firearms.
Oh let's see what Congress says. Oops as always they'll do nothing. After that, they will promise to make promises about promises, they'll promise.
Say what?
And people say we don’t have an issue
Maybe he was getting bullied at school but that's no excuse to bring a firearm to school I hope he does well and get some help that he needs
Unbelievable!
Parents need to be changed how the hell did a 6 year old get the gun
Nahh nothing new here... We move
Oh but no problems with gun control in America...
This kid is gonna be a problem when he's older. He's a problem NOW. 6 years old opening fire on a school? 6? God help us.
Check
6 year old & altercation in the same sentence 😂 USA
Altercation,the us really is something special,guns,pronouns its a crazy train in a nutshell… BoratSagdiyev warned ya about it…no one listened.
If only there was a good 6 year old with a gun there to stop him.
Come on now, this is 100% a parenting problem. I have to little children and guns, and there is no way in hell they could ever access my intruder deterrent. Be responsible if you are a gun owner. Your kids ability to access your weapons is your own security fault.
And yet you gotta be 21+ to smoke and drink... smh. Murica
But guns are good. If that teacher and other 6yo in class had of been armed to the teeth too then this wouldnt have happened. Right? Right?
It was show and tell
Un-F-ing believable!!!!
What the actual f? Where are the parents? Hell, where are the caseworkers? How does this even happen?
yes, this is american freedom
How did a gun get into the school? Shooting happened around 2pm. Teacher is in LIFE THREATENING CONDITION!! Sounds like the school security is lacking.
6, fucking 6. My God.
By all means let kids play games like Fortnite and among us and see what happens.
If only more guns were available to defend against the 6 year old
I have a 6 year old. So I just don't see how this could be 🤔
How the hell does a 6 year old know how to use a gun in the 1st place? My 13yr old don't even know how let alone me.
Hey gun owners! Take care of you f..ing guns so kids couldn't get it!!
What a world we live in. How would a six year old even get this idea? & How did they even have access to a gun?😢
6yrs old wtf what kind of household does he live in.
Yay America!
How can a six years old child has assets to a gun 🔫?Really
SIX?!?!?!!!!!?
When you don't hold your kids accountable for their actions. Kids are smarter than people think. When parents say 'oh he's just a kid', kids WILL take advantage of it. They know they'll get away with it & sometimes that's the only reason they do it.
If that happened in Texas, Gov Abbott would be proud of the 6yr old but disappointed that the teacher wasn't allowed to carry a firearm to shoot back at said 6yr old.
Yea it's a wrap
MatthewSBritton Cool, another shooting, why should anyone care. Merica
Teach your children guns are not toys. Preach to them.
So where are those “patriots” who would say that a good 6 yr old with a gun would be the solution to a bad 6 yr old with a gun?
What
It wasn't a shooting... covid must have got angry again. Or better yet, must be some Russian disinformation. Or...a gun walked its self into the school and shot some kids. Couldn't have been a 6 year old...
least surprising american news ever
Let me guess. The GOP solution is to arm all 6 year olds.
A fucking 6 year old
Well well well I hope my fellow Americans are starting to realize that mass availability of guns will result in tragedies like this. A good guy with a gun wouldn’t stop a bad guy with a gun in this case. This is a clear example why America needs less firearms and gun control.
An altercation....what kind of altercation is a Teacher having with a 6 Year Old, time to put the Paste away?
DenverChannel And where were the parents?
What the hell.
The kid must me in some kind of bad environment but also he’s not old enough to understand the severity of the situation PARENTS why did you fail your kid like this
“There’s not a gun problem in this country “……….. 😞 Thank the GOP supporters.
Virginia has no laws that require unattended firearms to be stored in a certain way, does not require a locking device to accompany the sale of a firearm, and no state statutes require firearm owners to lock their weapons. But they're all about protecting 'precious' children.
I know that a normal 6 year old would not have done this on their own! Parents raised him to behave like this! Sad! 🤮😭🤯☹️
Sounds like Covid strikes again
I wonder where he got that idea🤦♂️🤣😂😅🏴☠️
How are the gun freaks going to explain this one?
Blm
How long before they blame the teacher.
send the gun owner to prison for life and take the kid away from the parents. they say kids don't lie, I want to hear where this kid got the gun and the idea.
6 years old? How did he get the gun? Don't he have a father? How did he learn how to shoot and who gave him a gun?
Sadly there’s going to be more and more of this as times goes on, kids are turning into spoiled brats and growing up offended by anything and everything 🤦♀️ no backbone, soft skinned and extremely squishy!!!!!
Mane hold up....wth
Nothing, To. See. Here.
I’m sure the NRA and the GOP will tell us how to stop a bad 6 year old with a gun
Try him as an adult!
DenverChannel I love how casual it is that a 6 year old just “opened fire.”
It's the guns!
my heart breaks when younger and younger children are dealing with major mental health issues but getting to this point.....no words.
Bring the parent to book… how can parents be that careless
“Opens fire.” Shut up ANC
I blame the 6-yr old’s parents. Can’t wait for the parental profile to come out on these two.
Biden’s America
This never would’ve happened if all of the six year olds were carrying guns.
⚠️ 6 year old ?¿‽! // first-grader ?
A 6-year-old, eh? The tragedy is that I’m not too shocked.
Wow
only way to stop this is to give toddlers guns.
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