Virginia school assistant principal faces charges after 6-year-old shot teacher

A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old student shot first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner now faces criminal charges. A special grand jury in Newport News finds that Ebony Parker showed 'reckless disregard' for the well-being of Richneck Elementary School students on Jan. 6, 2023, according to a criminal indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Her attorney, Curtis Rogers, did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Parker and other school administrators are already defendants in a $40 million lawsuit brought by Zwerner that claims Richneck officials ignored warning signs ahead of the shooting. A complaint filed in Newport News Circuit Court contends that other staffers had told Parker the boy might be carrying a gun on the day of the shooting.

Other teachers warned Parker their students spotted the boy with a gun at recess, but the assistant principal allegedly 'forbade' them from searching the boy's backpack a second time, believed his pockets were too small to hide a handgun and said his mother would pick him up at dismissal, according to the complaint. The boy shot Zwerner later in class as she was sitting at a reading table in front of the room, police said.

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