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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHe said the boy had a handgun in the classroom, and investigators were trying to figure out where he obtained it. The police chief did not provide further details about the shooting, the altercation or what happened inside the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joselin Glover, whose son is in fourth grade,\u00a0told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper\u00a0she got a text from the school stating that one person was shot and another was in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy heart stopped,\u201d she said. \u201cI was freaking out, very nervous. Just wondering if that one person was my son.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carlos, her 9-year-old, was at recess. But he said he and his classmates were soon holed up in the back of a classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMost of the whole class was crying,\u201d Carlos told the newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parents and students were reunited at a gymnasium door, Newport News Public Schools said via Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The police chief did not specifically address questions about whether authorities were in touch with the boy\u2019s parents, but said members of the police department were handling that investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have been in contact with our commonwealth\u2019s attorney (local prosecutor) and some other entities to help us best get services to this young man,\u201d Drew said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Newport News is a city of about 185,000 people in southeastern Virginia known for its shipyard, which builds the nation\u2019s aircraft carriers and other U.S. Navy vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Teacher wounded in VA elementary school shooting<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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. (Jan. 6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richneck has about 550 students who are in kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the Virginia Department of Education\u2019s website. School officials have already said that there will be no classes at the school on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday our students got a lesson in gun violence,\u201d said George Parker III, Newport News schools superintendent, \u201cand what guns can do to disrupt, not only an educational environment, but also a family, a community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Virginia law does not allow 6-year-olds to be tried as adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, a 6-year-old is too young to be committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice if found guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A juvenile judge would have authority, though, to revoke a parent\u2019s custody and place a child under the purview of the Department of Social welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A school shooting involving a 6-year-old is extremely rare, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Boston\u2019s Northeastern University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fox told The Associated Press Friday evening that he could think of one previous incident involving a child that age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2000, a 6-year-old boy fired a bullet from a .32-caliber gun inside Buell Elementary near Flint, Michigan, 60 miles (96 kilometers) from Detroit, striking 6-year-old Kayla Rolland in the neck,\u00a0according to an AP article from the time. She died a half-hour later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fox analyzed school shooting data sets going back to 1970 from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, which is located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He said the data listed school shootings involving children ages 7, 8, 9 and older, but not 6-year-olds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another factor that stands out about the Virginia shooting is that it occurred in a classroom, Fox said. Many occur outside a school building where students are unsupervised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From 2010 through 2021, there were more than 800 school-related shootings in K-12 schools that involved 1,149 victims. Thirty percent of those occurred in the school building, said Fox, who published the 2010 book, \u201cViolence and Security on Campus: From Preschool Through College.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are students who killed teachers, more typically high school students,\u201d Fox said. \u201cI don\u2019t know of other cases where a 6-year-old shot a teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barakat reported <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom Friday, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said. 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