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A newly released body camera video from January 6, 2023, shows a defiant 6-year-old boy cursing at police officers shortly after he shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. The footage captures the child threatening the officers and revealing that he had taken the gun from his mother. In a subsequent civil trial, Zwerner was awarded $10 million in damages when a jury found the former assistant principal, Ebony Parker, grossly negligent for ignoring warnings about the boy’s possession of a firearm.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-08,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
In January 2023, a 6-year-old boy at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, with a gun he brought from home. The bullet entered through her hand and lodged in her chest where doctors decided it was safer to leave it. After the shooting, police body camera footage shows the young shooter cursing at officers when asked about the weapon. At a subsequent civil trial against the former assistant principal Ebony Parker, Zwerner testified she believed she was dying during the incident. The jury found Parker guilty of gross negligence for ignoring warnings that the child had a gun in his backpack and awarded Zwerner $10 million in damages, plus interest, as the shooting could have been prevented if proper action had been taken.
Written for “School Shooting Defiance” on 2026-10-08,
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A 6-year-old boy who shot his Virginia elementary school teacher in 2023 was seen cursing at police officers in a newly released body camera video.
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who → shoot → video
“Where is the weapon?” one officer asks.
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officer → ask → ?
“It’s over there,” the child says, cursing at the officer.
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child → ’ → officer
“If you want a piece of me, come it all, b----,” the child says.
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child → want → it
The video shows the moments after the first-grader shot Abigail Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on Jan. 6, 2023.
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grader → show → Jan.
The bullet tore through her hand before striking her in the chest, where it remains.
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it → tear → chest
At a civil trial against the school’s former assistant principal, a doctor testified that removing the bullet would be far more dangerous than leaving it in place.
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removing → testify → place
Zwerner testified at the trial that she thought she was dying after she was shot.
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she → testify → trial
“I thought I was on my way to heaven or in heaven,” she said.
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she → think → heaven
“But then it all got black.”
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it → get → ?
Zwerner, who no longer teaches, was awarded $10 million in damages, plus interest, last year after a jury found that former assistant principal, Ebony Parker, ignored warnings that the child had a gun in his backpack.
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child → teach → backpack
The jury said that the shooting could have been avoided and that Parker’s gross negligence led to the incident.
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negligence → say → incident
In the video, the child also appears to curse at a different teacher, who is restraining him as police begin processing the scene.
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police → appear → scene
“My mom had that,” the child says, in reference to the gun.
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child → have → gun
“I stole that from my mom.”
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I → steal → mom
At another point, the child screams at the officers.
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child → scream → officers
“Both of y’all want a f---ing piece of me, b----,” he says.
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he → want → me
The teacher holding him says the child still has gun residue on his hands.
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child → hold → hands
The video was initially sealed during Parker’s criminal trial, where she was charged with eight counts of child neglect.
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she → seal → neglect
A judge dismissed the case in May, ruling that Parker had not committed a crime under state law.
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Parker → dismiss → law
The judge decided to release the video but ordered the child’s face be blurred.
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face → decide → video
“I don’t care if you call backup,” the child tells police.
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child → care → police
“I don’t care if I go to jail.”
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I → care → jail
The child’s mother, Deja Taylor, was arrested after the shooting on a state charge of felony child neglect and a federal weapons charge.
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mother → arrest → neglect
In 2023 she was sentenced to two years in prison on the child neglect and 21 months on the federal charge.
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she → sentence → charge
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