6-year-old in custody after shooting teacher in Virginia, police chief says - CNN

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A 6-year-old lad is successful constabulary custody aft helium changeable a teacher astatine Richneck Elementary School successful Newport News, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Police Chief Steve Drew said successful a quality conference.

“The idiosyncratic is simply a 6-year-old student. He is close present successful constabulary custody,” Drew said. “We person been successful interaction with our commonwealth lawyer and immoderate different entities to assistance america champion get services to this young man.”

Drew said the pistillate teacher – who is successful her 30s – was changeable wrong a schoolroom and added that “this was not an accidental shooting.”

The constabulary main said determination was an altercation betwixt the teacher and the student, who had the firearm, and that a single circular was fired.

Drew, who had earlier said the teacher was successful captious condition, said Friday evening her injuries were considered life-threatening but that determination was “some betterment successful the past update that we got.”

There were nary different students involved, the main said.

The probe is ongoing, helium added.

“We’ll get the probe done, there’s questions we’ll privation to inquire and find retired about. I privation to cognize wherever that firearm came from, what was the situation,” Drew added.

Richneck Elementary School volition beryllium closed Monday, according to Newport News Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. George Parker.

“I’m successful shock, and I’m disheartened,” Parker said successful Friday’s quality conference. “We request to amended our children and we request to support them safe.”

“We request the community’s support, continued support, to marque definite that guns are not disposable to younker and I’m sounding similar a breached grounds today, due to the fact that I proceed to reiterate that: that we request to support the guns retired of the hands of our young people,” the superintendent said.

Officials are besides looking into immoderate past instances that whitethorn person transpired earlier the shooting, Parker added.