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‘I don’t care if I go to jail’: Newly released video shows 6-year-old defiant after Virginia school shooting
NBC News • • nation
Key Points:
- A newly released body camera video shows a 6-year-old boy cursing at police officers moments after shooting his Virginia elementary school teacher, Abigail Zwerner, in January 2023.
- The bullet injured Zwerner’s hand and chest, and a doctor testified at a civil trial that removing the bullet would be more dangerous than leaving it in place.
- Zwerner, who no longer teaches, was awarded $10 million in damages after a jury found that the school’s former assistant principal, Ebony Parker, was grossly negligent by ignoring warnings about the child having a gun.
- The video also captures the child admitting he stole the gun from his mother and expressing defiance toward police, while a teacher restrains him and notes he still has gun residue on his hands.
- Ebony Parker faced criminal charges of child neglect, but the case was dismissed by a judge who ruled she did not commit a crime under state law; the video was released with the child’s face blurred.
