Abby Zwerner, in red, the teacher who was shot at Richneck Elementary School in January 2023, listens as one of her attorneys talks to a reporter. Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service/Getty Images AP —

A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school ignored multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher, an attorney for the teacher said Tuesday as a trial opened in the woman’s $40 million lawsuit.

Abby Zwerner , a first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, was shot in the hand and chest in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom. Zwerner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital , required six surgeries and does not have the full use of her left hand. A bul

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