The Police, who are keeping the minor in custody, consider that the shooting was not accidental
The teacher is hospitalized and her condition is serious
a child of six years opened fire Friday in the classroom of a Virginia elementary school, seriously wounding a teacher. The little one is already in police custody, according to the Police.
no student was injured in the shooting, which occurred at the Richneck elementary school in the coastal city of Newport News, in the eastern United States, reports the AFP agency.
“The individual arrested is a six-year-old student. Right now he is in police custody,” local police chief Steve Drew explained at a press conference, adding that “It was not an accidental shooting”. The victim is a teacher in her 30s. the injuries she suffers are serious and she fears for her life.
“I’m shocked and heartbroken,” said the city’s superintendent of schools, George Parker. “We need the support of the community to make sure that guns are out of the reach of young people.”
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School shootings ravage the United States, with recent tragedies including the killing last May of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, at the hands of an 18-year-old gunman.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, last year there were some 44,000 firearm-related deathsof which approximately half were cases of murder, accidents and self-defense, and the other half suicides.