Abby Zwerner, a former Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student in her classroom in 2023, testified Thursday that she thought she had died in the shooting.

"I thought I was dying, I thought I had died," Zwerner said. "I thought I was either on my way to heaven or in heaven, but then it all got black, and so I then thought I wasn't going there, and then I, my next memory is I see two coworkers around me, and I process that I'm hurt, and they're putting pressure on where I'm hurt."

Zwerner also said she held up her hand just before the shooting because she could tell she was about to be shot.

"The moment went by very fast," she said.

Zwerner was testifying in her $40 million lawsuit filed against a former assistant principal who is accused of ignoring multiple warnin

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