The boy shot and wounded the teacher with a handgun in a first-grade classroom on Friday, and authorities have said the shooting was not accidental and was part of an altercation.
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Jones also declined to reveal details of the shooting, or say how the boy got access to the gun or who owns the weapon.“I do think that after this event, there is going to be a nationwide discussion on how these sorts of things can be prevented.” Experts who study gun violence said the shooting represents an extremely rare occurrence of a young child bringing a gun into school and wounding a teacher.
Riedman said he only knows of one other instance of a student younger than that causing gunfire at a school, in which a 5-year-old student brought a gun to a Tennessee school in 2013 and accidentally discharged it. No one was injured in that case.Article content In the Newport News case, Drew said Friday that the shooting didn’t appear to be an accident and that it was isolated to the single victim. He said the student and teacher had known each other in a classroom setting.
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