<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of the Guardian at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/virginia-school-student-shot-teacher">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/virginia-school-student-shot-teacher</a></div><div><br></div><div>—————————————————</div><div><br></div><div><div data-gu-name="headline" class="dcr-1djovmt" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; grid-row-start: headline; grid-column-start: headline; grid-row-end: headline; grid-column-end: headline; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);"><div class="dcr-14emo0l" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px;"><div class="dcr-1msbrj1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 36px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="dcr-y70mar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.125rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: baseline; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px;">Six-year-old intentionally shot teacher in Virginia school, police say</h1></div></div></div><div data-gu-name="standfirst" class="dcr-1yi1cnj" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; grid-row-start: standfirst; grid-column-start: standfirst; grid-row-end: standfirst; grid-column-end: standfirst; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);"><div class=" dcr-iuxtqj" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; max-width: 540px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Authorities said they had arrested the boy for shooting a female teacher at Richneck elementary school in Newport News</p></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">A six-year-old child deliberately shot a teacher at an elementary school in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/virginia" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(199, 0, 0);">Virginia</a> on Friday afternoon, according to police.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">Police said in a <a href="https://medium.com/newport-news-police-department/shooting-richneck-elementary-school-9dc2988157c1" data-link-name="in body link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(199, 0, 0);">statement</a> that they have arrested the boy accused of shooting a female teacher at Richneck elementary school in Newport News, Virginia, a city in the south-eastern part of the state.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">Police said they were notified about 2pm that the teacher had been shot inside the school during an altercation of some kind.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” Newport News police chief Drew told reporters. “We have a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.”</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">He added that the shooting was not an accident.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">The student has since been taken into custody, and the teacher, a woman in her 30s, was taken to a local hospital to be treated for injuries that were “believed to be life-threatening”, according to the police department. Drew told reporters the teacher’s condition had improved somewhat by late afternoon.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">He didn’t discuss any details about how the child is thought to have gotten the gun used in the shooting. But the chief told <a href="http://eporters./" data-link-name="in body link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(199, 0, 0);">reporters</a> that officers had moved children on the campus to the school gymnasium, and they were “safe” there while officers processed evidence that was still on the scene of the shooting.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">Drew also said that there were “plenty of counselors” working with the students in attempts to keep them calm.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">“The number one priority … is to get all our students back with their parents,” he said.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">A police statement said officers had implemented a system to reunite the students with their parents, dividing them by grade level.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">“An officer and a school official are walking the student to their parents, so it’s a good happy reunion, a little bit of emotion, but everything right now is safe,” Drew said.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">Friday’s shooting will almost certainly stoke debate about restricting public access to <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiks-6StPn6AhVSVTUKHQvVBqkQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Fgun-control&usg=AOvVaw2z_YZw38KxfLZ6C3xMonqe" data-link-name="in body link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(199, 0, 0);">guns in the US</a>, even after Congress passed a bill last year that tightened restrictions on access to firearms for some people who are considered to be at risk of carrying out violence.</p><p class="dcr-h26idz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; --source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">High-profile instances of gun violence across the US last year included the killings of 10 at a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/buffalo-shooting" data-link-name="in body link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(199, 0, 0);">grocery store in Buffalo</a>, New York, and 21 at a school <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/24/texas-school-shooting-uvalde-robb-elementary" data-link-name="in body link" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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