6-year-old boy who shot teacher allegedly tried to choke another

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A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students with his belt and once choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” according to a legal notice.

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“I didn’t feel safe the rest of the year because I knew if they didn’t protect me when he choked me and I couldn’t breathe, then they wouldn’t protect me, my kids or my colleagues if he did something not as harmful,” she told The Associated Press.After the shooting, police said, the boy was taken to a medical facility where he is receiving unspecified services.

Zwerner went to former Assistant Principal Parker’s office about 11:15 a.m. “to advise her that the shooter seemed more ‘off’ than usual and was in a violent mood.” It also says the boy had threatened to beat up a kindergarten student and “angrily stared down” the school security officer in the lunch room.

“Assistant Principal Parker should have called police,” the notice stated. “Instead, she did not follow proper protocol and chose to do absolutely nothing.” The guidance counselor asked if he could search the child for a weapon, to which Parker said “no” because the child’s mother was arriving soon to pick him up, the notice stated.

 

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Whip parents azz for raising the little thug.

Why is corporate media going so hard at a 6 year old Nbc attacking children’s credibility as a person because of his actions when he was 5,, sad and sick, we have a gun problem

“The teacher requested anonymity because she fears potential retaliation from the school district.” What is going on here?

So a grown ass teacher couldn’t stop a 6yr old kid from choking him/her?! Man that kid only needs 1 slap of my right hand and it’ll be over.

how big is that 6-year-old? at this point, the public deserves to know.

LMAO a six year old? If they were that scared of him he must be black, even still, a six year old?

How big were his little hands. He is 6. Something is wrong with the teacher

Sounds like a serial killer in the making.

Worried for those who will cross his path....when he's a grown-up!!!😭😭😭

Incredible parenting

Ghetto boy learn from home

Sounds like someone has a future in the ReTrumplican Party.

This boy obviously has some serious emotional problems and probably should’ve been removed from the school and placed in a mental health facility of some kind to get help. The system failed everyone here.

How big was this 6 year old student? Poor reporting.

Sounds like “white supremacy “ too me. 🤡🌎 Waite, thought it was the guns fault .

Homeschool this kid... He is a threat to other kids and staff

There is a little boy I. My daughters first grade class that hits teachers, flips his desk, cusses. It’s scary beaches obviously has some issues, most likely serious ones at home. Yet he’s still in her class. When is it enough?

Normal in schools. The public has no idea . This is daily everywhere

I think somebody better be checking into that child’s home life. How did he know belts can be used for spanking?

When you’re raised by awesome parents who have “secured” guns.

There are school administrators responsible for this. It should not be difficult to get to them and ask essential questions

Posted repeatedly since yesterday. Tell us why the parents aren't IN JAIL!

Name the parents. Also, wanna make a bet?

Wtf

The day Eddie said he didn’t like his teddy, you knew he was a no-good kid

The poor kid has 💩 parents. They obviously knew their son has deeply frightening behaviors & they couldn’t be bothered locking up a gun & securing the key.

What? This goes way beyond a 6 year old accidentally getting a hold of a gun. This kid has serious behavioral issues. I don’t want to make an assumption that this kid knew what he was doing by shooting his teacher

Learned behavior Lock up the parents

Democrats treat adults the same way by removing consequences for bad actions

what is going on with this kid?

What kind of home is that child living in? Where are his parents in all this?

Why was that kid in school and not a mental health facility for violent behavior?😳 liability

How did 6yo choke somebody out?

Can someone explain why his parents haven’t been charged? He brought a LOADED gun to school.

Child should have been removed and isolated until a parent got there to search his person. Should never have been allowed to remain in class. The now daily struggle of administration to not cross the line of “ students rights”. Forget teacher and other students rights .

I worked as a teacher in a pre-school classroom. One student (age4+) constantly hit the other kids, as well as myself. Nothing was done by management. Paying family of two children meant more than keeping qualified staffing.

An IEP doesn’t protect a child that chokes someone with intent. He threatened other children with a belt. Teachers n the GC were concerned, made complaints. A suspension followed by a mental health checkup b/4 returning, a CPS home check were critical.

That’s what we get for raising children on the cheap. You GET what you PAY for

Unacceptable.

thebax33 So, you know your child is a violent little psycho and you leave a loaded gun accessible to him? The parents should be charged and lose their right to own guns.

He needs to be removed from his family. That young, he had to learn it from home.

Parents must be republicans

BlackKnight10k When are we going to admit that not kicking problematic violent young boys out of school is ruining it for the rest of the kids? The ones in my classes took up all the teachers time. Why are they entitled to ruin it for everyone else? Kick them out!

Clearly the school failed to protect. However, the parents are ultimately responsible for their six year old child. The parents had a weapon and the child was able to access it.

This kid makes Junior Healy look like a lovely young boy comparatively

ResistanceInRed Lemme guess…he was wearing a “Trump 2024” shirt?

Tough neighborhood

I would have been in jail for yeeting this child long ago

BlackKnight10k That poor child fell through the cracks… wth was happening at home to create this 😥🤔

BlackKnight10k Jesus what must his parents be like?

I cannot imagine the trauma caused to the other children who witnessed this behavior. When is it enough I am a retired public school educator and am appallled that this child was not placed in an alternative setting. He is a danger to himself and others.

BlackKnight10k Why would this child still be allowed in school? He needed a behavioral treatment center.

Most likely from a single parent home with no order .

Sounds like a future Republican Senator in training

Six years old and he's already totally screwed up. Thanks to mom and dad. What a pair. They do what they learn.

So when will his parents get charged?

Looks like he long ago needed rescue from whoever did horrible things to him . Maybe this was a cry for help. Poor boy.

Race left out? We know what that means.

A six year old did all this? Where was the male leadership at the school? Or the female leadership? I say male because men act like women can discipline male children like they can. But the men didn’t step up here. He should have been expelled a long time ago.

BlackKnight10k there is a problem in his home

stacynyva MrStephenHowson this is an excellent example of the firearm lunacy in America. Enjoyed the discussion with Ronaldo the other day.

EverProactive Searial killer in the making.

Typical of public schools. They are so worried about protecting the individual they routinely put the group at risk. Plenty of public schools with very violent kids they refuse to kick out or put in alternative school. More often in Democrat school districts than not.

Why have his parents not been charged for allowing this troubled boy access to their gun? He is SIX. It was their responsibility to secure their gun.

Boy this says a lot about his mother & Father’s parenting skills. I’d hate to be his mom if I told him to do something that he didn’t want to do. He may get a gun after her.

Kids that do that, have something really bad going on at home, or have mental problems.

Little ADOLF

And the parents should be held accountable and punished and he should be tried as an adult 👍🏻

Look at the parenting.

Probably culture🤷‍♂️

I don’t know the alternative, but this kid, even so young, should NOT have been in school - if these reports of his behavior are true.

Yet he was in school!

Why the KCUF was he in school? This is outrageous. They KNEW the child was a danger to everyone and they allowed him to attend school. Black kids get expelled for less.

Parents! This happens all the time. I was threatened many times at special needs classrooms. Administration turns a blind eye and parents of these kids demand they stay.

Bet his parents are MAGA seditious insurrectionists who love violence

And this kids was around other people? This occured by societal & parental cowardness to deal with a problem.

Rabid ghetto boy

I'm really curious about what his life was like at home. I feel like 6 is an age where you're kind of accountable for your behavior, but you're very vulnerable to being shaped by experiences at home, such as abuse. I just feel sorry for him, and the teacher.

What does it take for a child to behave like that Parents should be arrested and under investigation; that behavior plus having a gun at home… what a failure of parenting skills. Why having kids they can’t educate ir take care of…

The child is broken. The parents are likely responsible. None of them can be repaired but they can all be fixed.

Nice little padded vest for the little monster

Why wasn’t he suspended?

Some people are just born crazy.

What theeee… the kid is the definition of renegade

They can be that young and that disturbed.

Quit 2nd career-i experienced more of this in high school classes, but it exists in elementary school, too-i would have had very hard time believing it if i hadn’t seen 1st hand. “How can u not handle 5th grader?!” Kids moved to different teacher as “remedy”-always starts again

sounds like he is acting like a male figure he knows

What kind of 6 year old can choke a grown woman 'until she couldn't breathe' !?!?!?!

No picture of the parents? 😒

Single moms… Yikes.

He was obviously cursed at and whipped with a belt at home. Labeling him special needs and then keeping him in a classroom with outlets was horrific. Sadly, I’ve seen it happen all too often in years of teaching. It’s always blame the teacher. He should never have been there.

How strong is a 6yo boy, that he can wrap his hands around a teacher's (a grown person) neck and choke her? 🤔🤔🤔 Also, this child needs to be locked for the rest of his natural life. He is a danger to people.

Parents failed him

Where are the parents or the single parent ?

Virginia, u need to tighten up your state laws. Ridiculous that there may be no way to hold this 6 yr old’s mother accountable for not securing gun with bullets, other than a possible misdemeanor. Also, shameful failure by school administrators!

How horribly do we need to treat teachers in this country before they revolt? How is any of this appropriate? And, I have no doubt this type of behavior is a widespread problem, unlike contrived grievance issues like CRT or classroom litter boxes.

Both parent(s) and school administrators are total failures and both should have legal consequences.

He’s 6 just choke slam that mf

It’s funny you go out of your way to not say a black kid shot a white teacher.

What punishment did he receive when he choked the teacher?

Should not have been in that school.

I question his home environment, his parents need to be looked at.

Why this child wasn’t placed in a state funded mental health facility is beyond me …

P a r e n t i n g.

I wonder what this kid has experienced to act like this.

Seriously, how big is this 6 year old kid?

obviously, he should have been removed long before that, but... how's an adult getting choked out by a 6 y.o.?

How does a 6 year old choke an adult? Why didn’t the school expel this kid? The school did nothing to protect the other students or teachers.

WHERE DID HE LEARN THAT BEHAVIOR? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

It all starts at home. Take the spotlight off the child and place it squarely on the parents and other family members who interacted with the child at home. Why did they continue to send the child to school knowing how violent he was ? The blame lies with them.

Is that even a child?

poor kid sounds like smthg going on at home

A 6 year old almost choked out a teacher?

There is no control in public schools. Administrators were afraid of this kid & his parents. Think Joe Biden and a birthday balloon. Take your kids out of public schools.

Choked a teacher until she couldn't breathe? Why was this child in school? What is going on at that school?

Young murderer in training.

Was this just Alec Baldwin in disguise?

THIS KID was known by school officials as a problem and nothing was done about it. JUST LIKE PARKLAND.

Was calling 911 not an option? If the assistant principal was choosing to do nothing, then protocol be damned, call the police department. If I am off here, please let me know.

Psychopath-12...

Earth to the parents of this kid, you have failed!

He should have been expelled.

What?!! How can a 6 yo can choke an adult?

Let me guess. The parents had no idea.

He will either kill or be killed in a few years & society will be blamed not him. The program No Child Left Behind doesn’t work just puts other children at risk.

Epic failure of a broken education system whereby problem students and parental 'rights' supercede the rights of every other child and adult in the education system.

A normal six year old couldn't be able to choke an adult. Clearly an evil force was in him.

How big was he

Photo of the mom and her shooter son.

He did all that and he's only 6 years old. And no one saw and reported all this,until he shot his teacher ?!

The horror of this kid and the utter failure of his parents to eliminate guns in the house. Why haven't his parents been arrested yet?

HOW IN THE WORLD are the hands of a first-grader large enough to strangle an adult? How did the little guy reach the teacher's throat, did they get down on their knees to give access? Someone's putting more fluff into the pillow.

If it bleeds it leads

and?

A 6 year has the arm strengh to choke a grown women until they cant breath ? I call BS on this story 🤣

Where are the parents?

Bullied

If a child is this mentally ill and the parents cannot take care of him what is next? For them to attend school with him each day and the 1 day they miss he shoots someone? I’m not optimistic he will lead a meaningful life. He may end up in prison at some point. Sad situation.

And they didn’t expel him

Let's move the focus from the child and to the home, parent or parents. It is both learnt and child rearing behavior. He obviously needs to be removed from the home and hopefully there is a more conscious family member to permanently adopt the child before it is too late.

How do you let a 6-year-old choke you

Wonder where he saw all of those actions.

What was happening to this child at home

So put him in juvie and throw away the key.

This one’s broken. Get a new one.

Covid vaccines fault

He learned that racism at home.

This behavior isn't shocking to most who work in special ed. with students who need support because of their behavior. I have been assaulted hundreds of times by 6, 7 and 8 year old. It's a really good day when no one assaults me or threatens my life.

Kid clearly has issues that were ignored.

The kid clearly needed tons of mental help, not for his issues to be ignored by the school. The administrators need to be FIRED. The parents NEED TO BE CHARGED, and forbidden from ever owning another firearm.

This child is being abused.

The administration is wacked!

I find it hard to believe a 6 year old could choke a teacher until they couldn't breathe

Honey get my bail money together. Yeah, I'm in jail. Some 6 yr old kid tried to choke me and.......

Is the sixth grader 6'2?

That baby needs his ass whooped.

He is 6 years old and needs help. Journalists are trying to stir-up rage with this story while giving a free pass to the 'adult' who refused to accept his election loss, and who incited the 6 Jan. 2021 insurrection. Lives were lost. Where is the balance?

6 years old Villainized piling up allegations let’s see this 6 year old monster begin to doubt allegations

It’s all learned from the home he lives in.

This story is bulljive

'once choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” according to a legal notice.' REALLY? This must be an incredibly LARGE 6 year old.

So where was the principal, or the parents, or the teachers in these scenarios? WTF is going on? When I was in school I would have been kicked out the very 1st time I acted up.

I'm sure he is only reacting and imitating what his home life was.

This is inexcusable. Pray it doesn’t set a foul precedent.

Absolutely insane all of this was allowed to take place before removing the kid from the school. His parents and school admin should all be sued and be sitting in jail with him.

Un Believable

Where are his parents . I would like to hear what they have to say .

Previous articles stated that this child had an IEP allowing a parent to be at school w/him every day & that the day of the shooting was the first time one of them wasn’t present. So they let him go alone the day after returning from a suspension? BRILLIANT!

I'm sure its just a long series of simple misunderstandings...

What in the world was going on in this child’s home for him to behave like that?

This kid should be in a mental institution. He needs help.

is that kid really six years old a 6 yr old with the strength to choke a teacher nearly breathless...

Lemme guess...he's Asian

Something smells here. Someone is trying to sensationalize this whole episode.

By the age of six, this kid figured out there are no consequences for choking a teacher, threatening and hitting other kids, etc. He was just transferred to another class. My curiosity about the parents behavior management is overwhelming.

How does a 6 yr old become like this?

For this teachers barely make a living wage.

How big is this 6yo?

Photo of the boy and mom

Why don’t we all just admit it? Mainstreaming seemed like a good idea at the time it was begun but in practice it’s been an abject failure. Special ed kids need specially trained educators in a protected and safe environment with whatever accommodations are necessary.

Incredibly poor single parenting. Usual suspect.

I mean that's horrible and he should have been kicked out long time ago..but also, how does a 6 year old physically choke an adult?

And the school did nothing?

A 6 year old choked you out. Bruh.

They raised that way. Why wont you talk about it ? We can't fix it, by ignoring it.

Little Treyvontae was a known troublemaker who should have been suspended months ago. But officials were too worried about being labeled 'racist' that they did nothing.

Yikes

And the parents kept a gun around with easy enough access that little psycho could get his hands on it. Throw momma in the jail.

6 years old?

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