by The Post Millennial News Staff at The Post Millennial
The administrators of a Virginia school were warned three separate times about a first-grade student carrying a gun but failed to act before he shot his teacher, according to the teacher’s lawyer.
Diane Toscano, the lawyer for the teacher Abigail Zwerner, claimed Wednesday that the administrators at Richneck Elementary School were warned multiple times about the 6-year-old boy’s gun, but were “paralyzed by apathy” and refused to call the police or lock down the school.
According to the Associated Press, Toscano said her client will sue the Newport News school district after she was shot by the 6-year-old while teaching earlier this month.
#BREAKING: Abby Zwerner’s attorney, Diane Toscano, reveals damning new details of what transpired on the day Abby was shot by her 6yo student. She says school admins ignored MULTIPLE concerns about an imminent threat raised by students AND staff. Listen to her timeline (part 1): pic.twitter.com/Br5zDgMAyA
— Sarah Chakales (@sechakales) January 25, 2023
Toscano said, “On that day, over the course of a few hours, three different times — three times — school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school and was threatening people. But the administration could not be bothered.”…
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