In the US, a first-grade pupil who was six years old shot the teacher during a fight inside the classroom.
According to officials, no pupils were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. The teacher, a 30-year-old lady, sustained fatal wounds. She had made considerable progress by late afternoon, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew told reporters.
Police reported that they had taken the student into custody after discovering the child in the classroom with a weapon.
“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, he said, was not an accident.
At the entrance to the gym, parents and children were reunited, Newport News Public Schools posted on Facebook.
A city of around 185,000 inhabitants, Newport News is located in southeast Virginia and is well-known for its shipyard, which produces the nation's aircraft carriers and other U.S. Navy ships.
According to the website of the Virginia Department of Education, there are roughly 550 kids attending Richneck who are in kindergarten through fifth grade. There won't be any classes at the school on Monday, according to school authorities.
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