The student had fatally injured the teacher in the incident on Friday. His condition is now stable, Drew said. He emphasized once again that the act was not an accident, but that the young man had deliberately shot the woman. “She suffered a gunshot wound but managed to get all the students out of the classroom,” the police chief said.
Teacher be a “hero”
In her opinion, she saved many lives and was a “hero”. In fact, no students were injured. The entire incident took place in a classroom. The incident would have been triggered by a dispute, as reported by the “New York Times”, citing the authorities.
Virginia law prohibits storing a loaded firearm where it is accessible to children under age 14. School incidents involving shooters so young are also rare in the United States. According to an organization cited by the New York Times, there have been 16 cases involving shooters under the age of ten since 1970. Children as young as six were involved in three of them, and two of those three incidents were recorded as accidental.