A former Virginia first-grade teacher recalled the dramatic moment she was shot by her 6-year-old student in her classroom two years ago — saying that’s when she thought she “died.”

Abigail Zwerner — who was an educator at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va. — described for a jury the moment when the boy stood by his desk in her classroom and shot her, piercing her hand and chest on Jan. 6, 2023.

“The last thing I remember at the school — I thought I was dying,” Zwerner said Thursday in a soft-spoken voice on the third day of trial in her $40 million lawsuit. “I thought I had died. 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,” Zwerner testified.

She said the next thing she remembered was

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