Boy, 6, boasts about shooting Virginia teacher
The six-year-old pupil who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year boasted about the incident, saying “I shot (her) dead”, unsealed court documents show.
While being restrained after the shooting at a Virginia school, the boy is said to have admitted “I did it”, adding, “I got my mom’s gun last night”.
His teacher, Abigail “Abby” Zwerner – who survived – filed a $40m (£31.4m) lawsuit earlier this year.
The boy has not been charged.The boy’s mother, however, Deja Taylor, has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanour for recklessly leaving a loaded firearm as to endanger a child.
In June, she was also charged with unlawfully using a controlled substance while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
Ms Taylor will be sentenced in October and could face up to 25 years in prison.
Using his mother’s gun, the boy shot his first-grade teacher, Ms Zwerner, in the hand and chest on 6 January at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.
After the shooting, Ms Zwerner told police at hospital that she saw the child standing by his desk when he “pulled a firearm out of his jacket pocket and pointed it” at her, according to the newly released documents. —BBC
