6-year-old shoots teacher

Police in the Virginia city of Newport News said an elementary school teacher was shot and suffered life-threatening wounds during an altercation with a ...

No students were injured in the shooting at Richneck Elementary School, police said. The teacher — a woman in her 30s — suffered life-threatening injuries.

Newport News police Chief Steve Drew said the boy was involved in “an altercation” with his teacher before he shot her with a handgun.

A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom Friday, police and school ...

He said the boy had a handgun in the classroom, and investigators were trying to figure out where he obtained it. He said the data listed school shootings involving children ages 7, 8, 9 and older, but not 6-year-olds. Richneck has about 550 students who are in kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the Virginia Department of Education’s website. “There are students who killed teachers, more typically high school students,” Fox said. From 2010 through 2021, there were more than 800 school-related shootings in K-12 schools that involved 1,149 victims. Many occur outside a school building where students are unsupervised. The teacher — a woman in her 30s — suffered life-threatening injuries. Just wondering if that one person was my son.” But he said he and his classmates were soon holed up in the back of a classroom. Her condition had improved somewhat by late afternoon, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said. [told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper](https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-richneck-shooting-20230106-bx3uw6mhlzerbosms7zoahdlx4-story.html) she got a text from the school stating that one person was shot and another was in custody. (AP) — A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom Friday, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said.

A 6-year-old boy is in custody and an adult hospitalized after a shooting at an elementary school in Newport News, VA, according to police.

Drew said the student and teacher had known each other in a classroom setting, and added that the shooting was not an accident. "We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting," Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said on Friday. Virginia law does not allow 6-year-olds to be tried as adults. [Newport News Police Department](https://medium.com/newport-news-police-department/shooting-richneck-elementary-school-9dc2988157c1) said the shooting happened at Richneck Elementary School around 2 p.m. The school is located about an hour north of Norfolk. The police chief did not specifically address questions about whether authorities were in touch with the boy’s parents, but said members of the police department were handling that investigation.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The teacher who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old boy at an elementary school in Newport News, Va., was in serious but stable ...

“This is a horrific tragedy,” she said. “The idea that a 6-year-old can have intent and the ability to shoot and kill their teacher on purpose is bizarre,” she said. “This is a surreal experience,” he said. Teachers, he said, “cannot control access to weapons.” The boy, a first-grader, is in custody, police said. Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones said he and other officials spoke with the teacher’s family Friday night at a hospital.