The teacher sustained a gunshot wound to the chest in the Jan. 6 shooting.
“We don’t believe the law supports charging a 6-year-old with a criminal offense as serious as this one,” Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn told ABC Hampton, Virginia, affiliate WVEC in a phone call.
Gwynn said they would have to show that “any defendant, including a 6-year-old,” is competent to stand trial and understands the legal system enough to help with their defense.
“I think it’s problematical to assume that a 6-year-old understands the criminal justice system enough to be competent to stand trial,” Gwynn told the station.
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