A teacher is in hospital in life-threatening condition and a 6-year-old student is in custody after a shooting at an elementary school in Virginia on Friday, police said.
Newport News police said “a round was fired” during an altercation in a classroom with the 6-year-old male student at Richneck Elementary School at around 2 p.m. The teacher was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
At a press conference on Friday evening, Police Chief Steve Drew told reporters it was “not an accidental shooting.”
“The only thing I can tell you is that there was an altercation between a teacher and a student, who did have the firearm, and then a round was fired,” Drew said….