A teacher is in danger after a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher

The Uvalde school shooting victim’s family says he did not intentionally shoot the child in the footsteps of the school shooting rampage

The parents brought the lawsuit, filed Wednesday, on behalf of themselves and their children, who include: Corina Camacho’s 10-year-old son, identified as “G.M.” in the court document, who was wounded in the attack; Tanisha Rodriguez’s 9-year-old daughter, “G.R.,” who ran from the playground to a classroom to hide when she heard gunshots; Selena Sanchez’s son, “D.J.,” who was headed to the nurse’s office when he saw the gunman shooting toward classrooms. The 9-year-old hid in a classroom.

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the May 24 shooting after an 18-year-old gunman walked into Robb Elementary and began firing into classrooms.

Daniel Defense does not do any studies evaluating the effects of their marketing strategies on the health and well-being of Americans and chose to not look at the cost to families and communities like Uvalde, Texas, said the complaint.

The complaint states that the company posted an image of a toddler holding an assault-style weapon on their social media accounts with the caption: “Training up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

The claim also says Firequest International, Inc., which manufactures accessory trigger systems, similar to illegal bump stocks, sells its products to untrained civilians, young adults and minors in Uvalde. Semi-automatic rifles use these types of devices, similar to automatic weapons.

The legal document states that the background check of the Uvalde school shooter was clean, and that Oasis was aware he was suspicious and likely dangerous. “The store owner and his staff did not act on their suspicions and block the purchases or notify law enforcement.”

The man legally purchased two rifles at the local federal firearms licensee. He also purchased 375 rounds of ammunition on May 18, according to officials.

Uvalde Police, Firefighter Pedro Arredondo, and Gun Manufacturers were “Unreasonably Dangerous” During the March of September 11, 2001

The lawsuit claims that Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the police chief at the time, and the former principal of the school created a dangerous environment for the people who sued them. The attorney tells CNN that his client won’t be talking about the litigation.

UvaldePD retreated after making an early attempt to break into the classroom. The claim states the scene remained active and active shooter protocol required Uvalde Police to stop the killing and the shooter no matter how many times it takes.

The suit also faults Lt. Mariano Pargas, the city’s acting police chief on the day of the massacre, as well as two other companies, claiming defects in their products were factors in the response to the shooting. Motorola Solutions, Inc.’s radio communications devices, which were used by some first responders, “were defective and unreasonably dangerous because they did not contain adequate warnings or instructions concerning failure during normal use,” said the claim.

Lawyers also say Schneider Electric, the manufacturer of the door locking mechanisms used at the school, “failed to lock as designed after being shut.”

Schneider Electric’s Venancio Figueroa III condemned the tragedy in Uvalde as being of the most terrible kind. We can’t comment on pending litigation at this time.

Daniel Defense, Oasis Outback, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, FireQuest International, Motorola Solutions, Inc., Pargas and Arredondo have all not responded to CNN request for comment.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/29/us/uvalde-victims-lawsuit-gun-manufacturers-school-district/index.html

Chaotic Response to an Elementary School Shooting: The First Caller, Khloei Torres, Was a Missing Student

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly included an extra plaintiff’s name. That person is not a party in the complaint and the name has been removed.

More than two dozen agencies responded to the scene that day. The recordings reflect a growing awareness from members of the group that the response was failing. More than one officer knew at an early point that the gunman was still in the classroom with students.

That caller was student Khloie Torres. She was young at the time. It would be 40 minutes from the time of her first call until law enforcement forced their way into her classroom.

According to reports, the newly surfaced recordings include more than 20 calls, including those between officers and dispatchers, and reveal a chaotic response without clear communication. Dispatcher gave misinformation to personnel.

Since the shooting, law enforcement’s response has been widely criticized, with agencies failing to take responsibility and blaming each other. Several top officials have been fired.

According to reports, a medic said that they were taking too long. That was less than an hour before Khloie started her third call. She survived the shooting.

Officers said they knew the gunman was in one of the rooms, but did not know what was happening behind the closed doors because they did not hear screams or cries, despite hearing several gunshots ringing out.

The officers did not invade the classroom after the responding officer’s wife was shot at the school, calling her husband saying she was “dying.”

He acknowledged there were victims at 12:20 p.m., saying on footage obtained through another officer’s body cam that “We have victims in there. I don’t want to have any more. You know what I’m saying?”

An elementary teacher in Monrovia, Maryland, claimed to have been stabbed multiple times at the Green Valley Elementary School in June 2005

Law enforcement and the school district are looking into the circumstances surrounding the teacher’s false claims that there were multiple stab wounds at the school.

According to a news release from the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, there was a call about multiple stabbings at Green Valley Elementary School. Roughly 40 minutes west of Baltimore, is the city of Monrovia.

According to the sheriff’s office, they found out there was no stabbings in the school and that 27 students and a teacher were missing. The teacher and students were found by the authorities at a local cafe. All of the missing students have been accounted for and are back with their families.

Earlier in the day, the teacher had allegedly attempted to call the front office to get permission to take students outside but did not receive a response and believed the school seemed “eerily quiet,” the sheriff’s office said.

The teacher then decided to lead the students through the woods up to a nearby cafe – a decision which authorities say she made due to her taking a part in emergency management procedures.

The sheriffs office said that while they are walking through the woods, she had the kids remove their brightly colored clothing and remove her shirt to avoid detection.

The Newport News school district responded to the 911 call about a teen shooting in the chest with a student and a gun in a classroom

“We are grateful that this was a non-credible threat, but we know that the experience was upsetting for the students involved and our community at large. We regret that this happened,” the school district added.

The teacher was taken into custody, which does not mean she was criminally arrested or charged, authorities said. She was taken to a hospital for evaluation but was not handcuffed, they added.

The school district said school officials held a meeting for parents of the impacted students to get more information and services for the children and will also have additional mental health staff at the school over the coming says for children and staff who need support, district officials said.

“We were doing math … an announcer came on she was like, ‘lockdown, I repeat lockdown,’” said fifth grader Novah Jones, who was located in a different classroom. “I was scared … it was like my first lockdown and I didn’t know what to do, so I just hid under my desk like everybody was.”

Police say that a six-year-old shot his first grade teacher in Virginia on January 6. The school reopened with new security measures in place, including metal detectors, after a teacher was shot in the chest.

Authorities and the Newport News public school district did not name the teacher, but her alma mater, James Madison University, identified her as Abby Zwerner.

The 6-year-old boy was taken into police custody, Police Chief Steve Drew said in a news conference, adding that “this was not an accidental shooting.”

There had been an altercation between the teacher and the student, who had the firearm, Drew said. A single round was fired and no other students were involved, he added.

The school came back with additional security measures, including metal detectors and clear backpacks, after the shooting.

Novah had trouble sleeping because she worried that the man still had a gun and could come to her house.

Novah is one of numerous children to grapple with the trauma of a shooting at school. Despite the fact that shooting in schools in the US are rare compared to other countries, they have become more prevalent than they were in other countries. In 2022, there were at least 60 shootings at K-12 schools, according to a CNN analysis.

Richneck Elementary has been closed since the shooting, and some parents have expressed their concern ahead of classes resuming. According to CNN, the boy accused of shooting Zwerner is in the same class as Mark’s son and the boy is distraught.

“It is almost impossible to wrap our minds around the fact that a 6 year old 1st grader brought a loaded handgun to school and shot a teacher; however, this is exactly what our community is grappling with today,” Newport News Mayor Phillip D. Jones said in a statement posted on Twitter.

Authorities are “working diligently to get an answer to the question we are all asking – how did this happen? Jones said that the child would get the supports and services he needs as they process what happened.

An Assistant Principal in Richneck, Virginia, Senturged to Report to the Superintendent for Investigations of a Shooting by a 6-year-old Student

The principal of a Virginia elementary school has been moved to a different district.

The 6-year-old boy who shot his first-grade teacher in a Virginia school had a history of disturbing behavior, including cursing at staff members, trying to whip students with his belt and choking a teacher, according to a legal notice sent to the school board.

Last week, a lawyer representing injured teacher Abby Zwerner, 25, said school administrators were warned that the child had a gun the day of the shooting. The school board also voted out superintendent George Parker III, whose last day is scheduled for Wednesday. The assistant principal resigned following the shooting.

The district said that Karen Lynch would be the administrator on the special assignment.

As Police Chief Steve Drew has said, “no School Resource Officers have been assigned to Richneck. The district told CNN that doors have been installed without one in classroom areas.

Following the announcement of her appointment Sunday, administrator Lynch sent an email to students’ families highlighting new protocols for the first day of full instruction.

Lynch encouraged families to send their children to school using their normal mode of transportation and asked that families send their children to school with a clear book bag as the school will provide them with it on Monday.

The school will be limiting visitors in the school leading during this first week of instruction to allow “staff the opportunity to establish routines and procedures with students,” according to the email. Parents are not allowed to enter classrooms and those who chose to walk their children to class must show identification and are also subject to search, it added.

An elementary school shoots a young man with a shot, ammunition, and an unarmed firearm: a felony to leave a child without a firearm

The school also shared an Amazon Wish List of emotional support items that teachers had requested for students to aid in the healing process in a post on the school’s Facebook account Sunday evening.

A parent told CNN that their son is still scared. He wants to go back to school, but also knows that he is going to be a safe one.

Zwerner was released from the hospital last month, a hospital spokesperson confirmed. Zwerner cannot use her hand, which she underwent four surgeries on, NBC reported.

A group of students on a school bus with a 6-year-old showed the secretary they had a gun and bullets at school, and police were notified.

The family of the student has released a statement which said the boy has an “acute disability” and was under a care plan that required a parent to attend school with him, though he was unaccompanied on the day of the shooting. “We will regret our absence on this day for the rest of our lives,” the statement read.

Under Virginia law, it is a misdemeanor for an adult to leave a loaded, unsecured firearm in such a way that it could endanger a child under the age of 14. It’s against the law for a person to let a child under the age of 12 use a firearm.

An Elementary School Student Bringing a Gun to School, and a Classmate in Pennsylvania is Charged with felony endangering the Welfare of a Child and Reckless Endangerment

The allegations were detailed in a January 24 legal notice by attorney Diane Toscano, who sent the letter to the Newport News School Board to inform officials of a lawsuit her client, teacher Abigail Zwerner, plans to file against administrators at Richneck Elementary School.

According to the legal notice, the child displayed some warning signs of violence. The student’s family said previously the child has a disability.

The legal notice says it is a miracle that no one was hurt. “The shooter spent his entire recess with a gun in his pocket … with his hand in that pocket while lots of first grade students played,” the legal notice states.

CNN obtained a legal notice Tuesday from the Newport News School District. The district didn’t respond beyond giving the document to CNN.

“The fact of the matter is that those who were aware that the student may have had a gun on the premises that day did not report this to Mrs. Newton at all,” Branch said.

The woman in Pennsylvania and man in North Carolina are both charged with having a gun at school after at least three times this school year an elementary school student has brought a weapon to campus.

In Pennsylvania, a mother in Norristown was arrested after her 6-year-old son brought a gun to Joseph K. Gotwals Elementary School on February 9, prosecutors said.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release that Jasmin Devlin turned herself in on Tuesday and has been charged with felony endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment for failing to secure a firearm in her home. It’s not certain if he has an attorney.

The police believe that the boy found the weapon. The gun was in his mother’s room the night before he went to school, prosecutors said. The boy took his brother’s bullets out of the gun and pretended to shoot him, according to the news release. The child said that he took the gun to school in the middle of the night after putting it in his backpack.

Marvin Ray Davis, 58, is charged with a misdemeanor count of improper storage of a firearm to protect a minor

She is not allowed to have contact with children as part of her bond conditions. A preliminary hearing in the case is set for February 24.

In North Carolina, Marvin Ray Davis, 58, was charged with a misdemeanor count of improper storage of a firearm to protect a minor after an unloaded 9 mm handgun was discovered in a 6-year-old’s backpack at Fairview Elementary on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Rocky Mount Police Department.

The child was removed from the classroom after the backpack was secured. There were no threats made with the weapon and it was never displayed by the child,” police said.

Davis is not related to the child but did live in the same home, a department spokesperson told CNN. He was issued a $4,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Rocky Mount Court on March 1, the release said.

It’s unclear if Davis has an attorney and CNN has made several attempts to contact him. CNN has also reached out to Nash County Public Schools for comment.

The situation should remind gun owners to keep their weapons out of the hands of those under the age of 18. “This was a preventable situation,” he added.

“Some days are not good to get out of bed,” said the boy who shot and killed Zwerner, according to CNN’s Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn

Zwerner said that some days are not good to get up out of bed. Some days are better than others for getting out of bed and getting to my appointments. But from what I have gone through, I try to be positive.

The boy who allegedly shot Zwerner will not be criminally charged, Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn told CNN affiliate WTKR earlier this month.