Abby Zwerner instinctively raised her hand toward her heart when she saw the 6-year-old holding the gun.
After the bullet hit her, “I thought I was on my way to heaven or in heaven,” Zwerner testified Thursday during her civil case against a former school official accused of neglecting warning signs the student had brought a gun to school.
“I thought I was dying. I thought I had died,” Zwerner said with a catch in her voice as she recounted the moment she was shot in the hand and chest on January 6, 2023, while sitting at a reading table in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News.
The boy’s “blank look” as he aimed at her is a memory Zwerner said she can’t shake.
Zwerner has filed a $40 million lawsuit against ex-assistant principal Ebony Parker, saying Parker failed to act when several people approached her with concerns the boy had brought
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