6-year-old suspected of shooting Newport News teacher

[demmiblue]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – A 6-year-old student is in custody following a shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News Friday afternoon that sent a female teacher to the hospital, Police Chief Steve Drew confirmed.

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The teacher is being treated at Riverside Regional Medical Center. During a joint press conference with the mayor Friday night, Newport News police said the teacher has life-threatening injuries.

Chief Drew confirmed a 6-year-old boy is in custody.

Police said during the press conference that the shooting was not accidental and that they are working to learn how the student got a firearm and why the shooting occurred.

https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/shooting-reported-at-newport-news-elementary-school/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Six year olds of this generation are a whole other class (no pun intended) than the

group I grew up with.

I had a six year old almost a year ago accuse me of strangling him when in fact he physically assaulted me when I was a substitute teacher. AND his regular teacher quit in the middle of the year before she got tenure. The kid was that bad.

[enough]

2. Guns for everyone, all ages, everywhere, all the time! USA USA USA!

A six year old shooting a teacher — RIGHT ON!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. YES!!!

The Second Amendment applies to all, including 6 year olds!

[tulipsandroses]

3. This is so disturbing. A 6 year old is a baby! I hope the teacher recovers

The parents should be taken into custody, not the 6 yr old.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Agreed!

First, the kid didn't but his own gun. So, the gun owner should be responsible.
Second, the kid could have accidentally shot himself, which seems like reckless endangerment of a minor.
I'm sure prosecutors could come up with a few other laws the parents broke.

[GPV]

5. Something is very wrong here, that's for sure.

[SCantiGOP]

6. So, stop a bad six year old with a gun

by having good six year olds carrying guns? Or is it a mental health issue?
Seriously, how does the gun lobby spin this as anything other than a loud cry for reducing the amount of guns in our society?

[enough]

10. Obviously if the other children in the class had been armed, they would have

prevented this.

[myohmy2]

7. some...

...adults need to charged and brought to trial...

...6 year olds can't legally purchase or own guns...

...at least I don't think so...

[MagickMuffin]

9. This woman thought it could have been her son!

WAVY spoke with Richneck parent Joselyn Glover who told us, “My heart stopped. I was freaking out. I was very nervous just wondering was that one person my son?”

[joshcryer]

11. Clown world.

Nothing else to describe Americas gun fascination.