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Assistant Principal Charged in School Shooting!

cheriere — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:33:07 GMT

Watching the Today Show this morning before I have to go to the salon for a touch up, I can't believe the story that's on!

Apparently, at Richneck Elementary School, the assistant principal has been charged in a school shooting! A student happened to see the gun and told. After the assistant principal took the gun, it was not reported. When a fellow colleague asked to search, they refused, but they did anyways and found it!

This is almost incomprehensible!!!

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KingstonMom — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:40:07 GMT

....And here we are, trying to stop mass shootings by students!

I hope his license is revoked!

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cheriere — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:02:34 GMT

@KingstonMom wrote:
....And here we are, trying to stop mass shootings by students!

I hope his license is revoked!

Oh I'm sure they will be...just for starters!

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They CallMe MRWILKES — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:53:58 GMT

This former Assistant Principal is female.

Ebony Parker: Grand Jury charged with 8 counts of child abuse and neglect, not gun possession.

The shooting by a student occurred one year ago, but these Grand Jury proceedings have just been released.

Each count faces a 5 year maximum prison charge.

A warrant has been issued for her arrest.

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cheriere — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:00:24 GMT

@They CallMe MRWILKES

The man reporting referred to Dr Parker as "He" in the broadcast. I rewound and had another listen just to make sure. But, I have no reason to believe they may have gotten it incorrect, so I'll edit.

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Marp — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:45:25 GMT

@cheriere, I respectfully request that you edit your post to clarify that it was not the assistant principle that had the gun but that a student reported seeing the 6-year-old shooter with the gun and nothing was done about the report.

The charges against the Ebony Parker are basically related to negligence.

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MorningLover — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:59:34 GMT

CBS News: The former assistant principal of a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old boy shot and wounded his first-grade teacher last year has been indicted on eight felony counts of child neglect.

A special grand jury found that Ebony Parker showed a "reckless disregard for the human life" of the other students at Richneck Elementary School on Jan. 6, 2023, in Newport News, Virginia, unsealed court documents show.

Each of the charges is punishable by up to five years in prison.

According to authorities, Ebony Parker, of Newport News, was working the day the 6-year-old fired a single shot at his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, during a reading class.

Zwerner has filed a $40 million lawsuit alleging that Parker, 39, ignored several warnings that the boy had a gun in school that day. Zwerner was shot in the chest and hand in the shooting but has recovered.

The boy told authorities he got his mother's 9mm handgun by climbing onto a drawer to reach the top of a dresser, where the firearm was in his mom's purse. He concealed the weapon in his backpack and then his pocket before shooting his teacher.

First grade teacher Abigail Zwerner.

In the lawsuit, Abigail Zwerner's lawyers describe a series of warnings that school employees gave administrators in the hours before the shooting, beginning with Zwerner, who went to Ebony Parker's office and told her the boy "was in a violent mood," had threatened to beat up a kindergartener and stared down a security officer in the lunchroom, the Associated Press reported.

The lawsuit alleges that Parker "had no response, refusing even to look up at (Zwerner) when she expressed her concerns."

The lawsuit also alleges that a reading specialist told Parker that the boy had told students he had a gun. Parker responded that his "pockets were too small to hold a handgun and did nothing," the lawsuit states, according to AP.

The indictments allege that Parker "did commit a willful act or omission in the care of such students, in a manner so gross, wanton and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life."

The special grand jury issued the indictments on March 11, and they were unsealed by court order Tuesday. A warrant was issued for Parker's arrest on Tuesday morning, but she's not yet in custody.

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Still Raining — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:30:56 GMT

I belong to a more political site, and we always have to have a link or citation for news. We would be run off the site for posting hearsay.

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cheriere — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:36:44 GMT

@Marp wrote:
@cheriere, I respectfully request that you edit your post to clarify that it was not the assistant principle that had the gun but that a student reported seeing the 6-year-old shooter with the gun and nothing was done about the report.

The charges against the Ebony Parker are basically related to negligence.

Will do.😃🌸. The today show did report that when asked about the gun, they did refuse the search. When they searched anyways is when it was found.

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cheriere — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:21:38 GMT

@Still Raining wrote:
I belong to a more political site, and we always have to have a link or citation for news. We would be run off the site for posting hearsay.

I was just reporting what the Today Show aired in their report this morning around 7:20am.
Perhaps, the political forum you mentioned might take this up with The TODAY SHOW.

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Still Raining — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:07:24 GMT

@cheriere wrote:
@Still Raining wrote:
I belong to a more political site, and we always have to have a link or citation for news. We would be run off the site for posting hearsay.

I was just reporting what the Today Show aired in their report this morning around 7:20am.

Words matter. A more accurate title would be that she has been found negligent by the court.

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Love to Run — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:12:18 GMT

@Still Raining wrote:
@cheriere wrote:
@Still Raining wrote:
I belong to a more political site, and we always have to have a link or citation for news. We would be run off the site for posting hearsay.

I was just reporting what the Today Show aired in their report this morning around 7:20am.

Words matter. A more accurate title would be that she has been found negligent by the court.

@cheriere Just because that's what you thought you heard doesn't mean that's what they said.

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BoopOMatic — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:16:30 GMT

Glad she was arrested. Hope she is punished to the fullest extend of the law.

And I hope the teacher who was shot receives $$$, if she hasn't already.

Lord have mercy....

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skatting44 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:19:52 GMT

@MorningLover

Thanks for posting the complete article which provided the facts clearly.

This original post was confusing. I do remember hearing abt this horrid incident . Sounds the parents is at fault for not securing her gun properly in a locked case and the Assistant Principal's lack of taking the warning signs seriously all contributed to this needless incident. Hope they charhe all involved parent and Assistant Principal if found guilty.

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elated — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:29:59 GMT

I wonder why no one thought to notify the boy's parents or call the police. The story has some holes. Why didn't the reading specialist notify the security guard or police? This could have saved the teacher from being shot. Incompetence or unwillingness to make a decision!!

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Venezia — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:47:22 GMT

I agree that all of the adults who failed to intercede to stop this shooting should be held accountable.

However, I also wonder what on earth has gone wrong, when a six-year-old child deliberately gets a gun, takes it to school, threatens other students and then shoots his teacher?

A six-year-old child??? Nothing about that is normal. Something about that is very wrong.

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Northray — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:14:33 GMT

@Venezia wrote:
I agree that all of the adults who failed to intercede to stop this shooting should be held accountable.

However, I also wonder what on earth has gone wrong, when a six-year-old child deliberately gets a gun, takes it to school, threatens other students and then shoots his teacher?

A six-year-old child??? Nothing about that is normal. Something about that is very wrong.

Well thats the thing, who would think a six year old child would have a gun and shoot someone?

I'm not defending the AP but that is not something your mind automatically goes too. She should have checked out the situation in any case. When you have several adults coming to you with a problem. You check out the problem!

And also I wonder if the parents will be held accountable? They just convicted two parents in a different older child shooting case.

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lgfan — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:19:13 GMT

@Northray wrote:
@Venezia wrote:
I agree that all of the adults who failed to intercede to stop this shooting should be held accountable.

However, I also wonder what on earth has gone wrong, when a six-year-old child deliberately gets a gun, takes it to school, threatens other students and then shoots his teacher?

A six-year-old child??? Nothing about that is normal. Something about that is very wrong.
Well thats the thing, who would think a six year old child would have a gun and shoot someone?

I'm not defending the AP but that is not something your mind automatically goes too. She should have checked out the situation in any case. When you have several adults coming to you with a problem. You check out the problem!

And also I wonder if the parents will be held accountable? They just convicted two parents in a different older child shooting case.

What I don't understand is how a six year old can carry a gun from his house to school and no one noticed. Was he concealing the gun? The parents should be held liable because it was irresponsible of them to not pay attention to what their child was doing.

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They CallMe MRWILKES — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:21:15 GMT

The 6-year-old’s mother, Deja Nicole Taylor, 26, was charged with felony child neglect after the boy took her gun to school that morning. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years behind bars.

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Northray — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:29:08 GMT

@lgfan wrote:
@Northray wrote:
@Venezia wrote:
I agree that all of the adults who failed to intercede to stop this shooting should be held accountable.

However, I also wonder what on earth has gone wrong, when a six-year-old child deliberately gets a gun, takes it to school, threatens other students and then shoots his teacher?

A six-year-old child??? Nothing about that is normal. Something about that is very wrong.
Well thats the thing, who would think a six year old child would have a gun and shoot someone?

I'm not defending the AP but that is not something your mind automatically goes too. She should have checked out the situation in any case. When you have several adults coming to you with a problem. You check out the problem!

And also I wonder if the parents will be held accountable? They just convicted two parents in a different older child shooting case.

What I don't understand is how a six year old can carry a gun from his house to school and no one noticed. Was he concealing the gun? The parents should be held liable because it was irresponsible of them to not pay attention to what their child was doing.

I know. I'm thinking it must have not been a big gun. I remember a friend of mine got a gun for her birthday when she was 21. And it was this small little thing with a pearl handle. Looked more like a cosmectic trinket than a gun. But it was a gun.