The police gathered no students were injured in the Friday shooting at Richneck Elementary School. But the teacher, a 30-year-old woman, was critically injured.
A six-year-old student in Virginia, United State shot a teacher during an argument inside a first-grade classroom, according to police and school officials in Newport News.
The police gathered no students were injured in the Friday shooting at Richneck Elementary School. But the teacher, a 30-year-old woman, was critically injured.
It was learned that her condition had improved somewhat by late afternoon.
Police said the child had a handgun in the classroom and that they took that student into custody.
“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” Drew told reporters. “We have a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.”
“The shooting was not an accident, he said.
Gun violence kills and injures tens of thousands of people in the United States each year, and it was the leading cause of death for children aged 19 and under in 2020.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics reports 38,390 firearm deaths in 2018, the most recent year for which data are available as of 2021, of which 24,432 were suicides. The rate of firearm deaths per 100,000 people increased from 10.3 per 100,000 in 1999 to 12 per 100,000 in 2017, with 109 people dying per day or approximately 14,542 homicides in total, with the rate in 2018 being 11.9 per 100,000.
In the United States in 2010, there were 19,392 firearm-related suicides and 11,078 firearm-related homicides. In 2010, 358 murders were reported involving a rifle, 6,009 involving a handgun, and 1,939 involving an unspecified type of firearm.
A total of 478,400 violent crimes, both fatal and nonfatal, were committed with a firearm in 2011. The primary federal firearm statutes, 18 USC 922 and 18 USC 924, cover gun crimes.