An elementary school teacher was left fighting for her life after being shot by her six-year-old student.
The horrific news comes straight from Newport News, Virginia, where the police arrested a young child who opened fire inside his classroom at Richneck Elementary School.
According to the reports, the young boy critically and deliberately shot his teacher at around 2 pm on Friday.
After the shooting, the teacher was rushed to Riverside Regional Medical Center where she remains in critical condition.
“The individual is a six-year-old student and is right now in police custody. This was not an accidental shooting,” Newport News Police Chief Scott Drew confirmed.
“It was in a classroom, an altercation took place there. 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.”
The police also confirmed that no children were harmed in the shooting.
While the authorities have yet to find out how the six-year-old shooter gained access to a firearm, a relative of one of the students at the school suggested one child brought “shiny bullets” to the school last week.
As the woman told DailyMail.com, however, it remains unclear if the child that bragged to his classmates about the bullets was the same person who shot the teacher.
“[The student] brought bullets to school last week and said he would bring his gun. A parent told the school they did nothing, now look,” the grandmother of one of the students said.
“The parents outside stated that their child told them a kid brought golden shiny bullets to school and was thinking about bringing his gun.
“The student told the parent, who informed the school. And the school just yesterday got back to the parent saying the parent of the kid said it was a nerf bullet and the parent said nerf bullets aren’t shiny and gold.”
As of this writing, the school shooting remains under investigation and the boy remains in custody.
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