This story is wild and scary as all hell. Apparently, a 6-year-old first-grader got into an altercation with his teacher and shot her – on purpose – and now the teacher is fighting for her life. This whole nightmare went down in Virginia. We don’t have the name of the teacher, and obviously, the 6-year-olds name has not been released, but police referred to the child as a “male.”
Thankfully, no students were injured in the shooting. It happened on Friday at Richneck Elementary School, police said.
We’re told that the teacher is a female and she’s in her 30s and her injuries are life-threatening.
She may not make it.
TMZ reported that a 6-year-old student shot a teacher inside their first grade classroom at a Virginia elementary school … and now the teacher is fighting for her life.
The shooting went down Friday at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, with the student opening fire on a female teacher … according to police.
Cops say the teacher, who is in her 30s, suffered life-threatening injuries … and the 6-year-old child is in police custody after using a handgun in the shooting.
It’s interesting … police say the shooting was not an accident, and it sounds like only a single shot was fired.
The school, which has about 550 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, was evacuated after the shooting … with parents reuniting with their children outside a gymnasium door.
The school already canceled classes for Monday … and the teacher’s condition is said to be improving.
The cops are adamant that the shooting was not an accident.
Investigators were trying to figure out where the child obtained the gun.
Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew told reporters her condition had improved somewhat by late afternoon.
Police said the child had a handgun in the classroom and that they took that student into custody.
“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” Drew told reporters. “We have a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.”
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.
“We have been in contact with our commonwealth’s attorney [local prosecutor] and some other entities to help us best get services to this young man,” Drew said.
The police chief did not provide further details about the shooting, the altercation or what happened inside the school.
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We pray that teacher pulls through and they get that child some mental help.
This post originally appeared on WayneDupree.com.