A 6\u002Dyear\u002Dold student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a classroom Friday, officials said.
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Parents walk with children outside Richneck Elementary School, where according to the police, a six-year-old boy shot and wounded a teacher, in Newport News, Va., Jan. 6, 2023, in this screen grab from a handout video.Joselin Glover, whose son is in fourth grade, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper she got a text from the school stating that one person was shot and another was in custody.
The police chief did not specifically address questions about whether authorities were in touch with the boy’s parents, but said members of the police department were handling that investigation.Article content Richneck has about 550 students who are in kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the Virginia Department of Education’s website. School officials have already said that there will be no classes at the school on Monday.
A school shooting involving a 6-year-old is extremely rare, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Boston’s Northeastern University.
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