He is 6 years old.. An American child shoots his teacher in Virginia
A 6-year-old boy shot and wounded a schoolteacher at his school in Newport News, Virginia, during an altercation in a first-grade classroom on Friday, police and school officials said.
A school shooting involving a 6-year-old is extremely rare, though unheard of, while Virginia law limits the ways in which a child of this age can be punished for such crimes, experts said. the crime.
Police said no students were injured in the shooting at Rechnik Primary School.
The teacher, who is in her thirties, was seriously injured.
Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said her condition has improved somewhat.
"We've never had a situation where there was someone running around the school shooting," Drew told reporters, adding later that the shot was not an accident.
Drew said the student and the teacher knew each other in the classroom.
He said the boy had been carrying a gun in class, and investigators were trying to figure out where he got it from.
The police chief did not provide further details about the shooting, the altercation, or what happened inside the school.
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