US teacher shot by 6-year-old pupil wins US$10 million in lawsuit
A jury in Virginia on Thursday awarded US$10 million to a former teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student and later accused an ex-administrator in a lawsuit of ignoring repeated warnings that the child had a gun. The jury returned its decision against Ebony Parker, a former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News. Abby Zwerner was shot in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her first-grade classroom. She had sought US$40 million against Parker in the...