Former Assistant Principal Charged in Teacher’s Shooting by 6-Year-Old

The former assistant principal of a Virginia school has been indicted on eight felony counts of child neglect in connection with a high-profile incident last year in which a teacher was shot by a 6-year-old.

Ebony Parker, the ex-administrator at Richneck Elementary School, is accused of having shown “a reckless disregard for the human life” of students at the school on Jan. 6, 2023, when teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by one of her first-grade students, according to unsealed indictments filed in Newport News Circuit Court, the The Virginian-Pilot reports.

Zwerner has alleged in a $40 million lawsuit that Parker had been warned at least three times before the shooting took place that the boy had a gun with him. The case alleges that Parker ignored the warnings.

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