Six-year-old shoots teacher in Virginia classroom

A US six-year-old scholar shot and wounded a trainer throughout an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and faculty officers within the Virginia metropolis of Newport News stated.

No college students have been injured within the taking pictures at Richneck Elementary School, police stated.

The trainer — a lady in her 30s — suffered life-threatening accidents.

Students and police collect outdoors of Richneck Elementary School after a taking pictures (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot by way of AP) (Nine)

Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew informed reporters that her situation had improved considerably by late afternoon.

Police stated the kid had a handgun within the classroom and that they took that scholar into custody.

“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” Drew informed reporters.

“We have a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.”

A taking pictures at a Virginia elementary faculty despatched a trainer to the hospital and ended with “an individual” in custody. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot by way of AP). (Nine)

He added that the taking pictures was not an accident.

Parents and college students have been reunited at a gymnasium door, Newport News Public Schools stated on Facebook.

Newport News is a metropolis of about 185,000 individuals in southeastern Virginia recognized for its shipyard, which builds the nation’s plane carriers and different US Navy vessels.

Richneck has about 550 college students who’re in kindergarten via fifth grade, in keeping with the Virginia Department of Education’s web site.

School officers have already stated that there will likely be no lessons on the faculty on Monday.