A 6-year-old student at a Virginia elementary school shot and injured a teacher Friday. What we know:
A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a Virginia teacher Friday during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and school officials said. A 6-year-old student at a Virginia elementary school shot and injured a teacher Friday, according to authorities who provided more information about the shooting and the condition of the teacher on Saturday.
"We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting. We had a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired," Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said. The teacher, a woman in her 30s, had life-threatening injuries on Friday, Drew said. Gun safety experts have sounded the alarm about children accessing unsecured guns owned by their parents and caregivers and accidentally hurting themselves or others.
"A 6 year old gaining access to a loaded gun and shooting him/herself or someone else, sadly, is not so rare," Daniel Webster, a professor who studies gun violence at Johns Hopkins University, told the Associated Press. Indeed, young children can be charged with crimes in the state, said Kelly L. DiCorrado, a Virginia lawyer who deals with criminal juvenile defense. DiCorrado remembered her firm representing a 6-year-old who had been charged with grand larceny.
Instead, authorities might file a petition stating he is a child in need of services such as counseling, Block said. It's more likely authorities will focus on providing services to the boy in the interest of rehabilitation rather than punishment. In Virginia, a child that young could not be put in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice unless they're charged with a very serious crime, he said, adding that it wouldn't be the right way to handle this situation.
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