The 9 mm handgun reportedly used by the 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot his teacher was legally purchased by his mother, police revealed. Additional details about the school shooting that injured teacher Abby Zwerner, 25, were brought to light during a Monday news conference. The boy took the firearm from his home to school in his backpack on the day of the shooting.
“What we know today is that she was providing instruction. He displayed a firearm, he pointed it and he fired one round,” Newport News police Chief Steve Drew said.
Drew had previously said that the shooting was not accidental and had declined to elaborate, but said he wanted to clarify the remarks he made just after the shooting on Friday, when he said there was an “altercation” between the boy and first-grade teacher. Rather, he said it was more like an “interaction” between the two before the shooting at Richneck Elementary School.
Zwerner put up her hand in a defensive position when the gun fired, and the bullet went through her hand and into her upper chest, Drew said. Although her injuries were initially considered life-threatening, her condition has improved, and she is currently listed as stable at a hospital.
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