A new shooting was reported this Friday in a school uses, even if it has little to do with any of the above. In this opportunity, a six-year-old boy shot his teacherfighting for his life.
The episode took place this Friday in a classroom at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newport News, in the state of Virginia. No students were injured.
“The individual is a six-year-old student. He is currently in police custody,” local police chief Steve Drew said at a press conference, clarifying that “it was not an accidental shooting“.
According to police information, the only victim is a 30-year-old teacher, whose “injuries believed to be life threatening“.
The 911 alert call was recorded at around 2:00 p.m. After the shooting, the teachers herded the children into the gymnasium, where they kept them entertained until their parents arrived.
It has not yet been revealed what kind of gun the boy fired and how he managed to bring it to school.
The authorities of that educational center have reported that lessons will be suspended next Monday.
“I am shocked. We need community support to make sure guns are out of the reach of young people,” said city schools superintendent George Parker.
School shootings plague the United States, with recent tragedies such as the killing last May of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, at the hands of an 18-year-old assailant.
In his opinion Gun Violence Archivethere were approximately 44,000 firearm-related deaths in the United States last year, about half of which were homicides, accidents and self-defense, while the other half were suicides.
With information from AFP.
Source: Clarin
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