Virginia teacher recounts harrowing experience of being shot by 6-year-old student.

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Virginia teacher recounts harrowing experience of being shot by 6-year-old student.
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Abigail Zwerner, a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia, who was shot by a six-year-old student, has spoken publicly for the first time about the incident. She plans to sue the school district after being shot through her hand and upper chest following what police described as an "altercation" with the first-grader. The teacher's lawyer alleges that school leaders had been warned multiple times that the student had a firearm, and that the school failed to adequately respond. The child brought the gun in his backpack to the school. The firearm was legally purchased and belonged to the child's mother, police have said.

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