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Graphic Content Warning: This article includes police body-camera footage from the aftermath of a school shooting.

A Virginia elementary school teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student recounted to jurors that she "thought she was dead," as newly released police body-camera footage captured the chaos that followed the 2023 classroom shooting.

On the witness stand Thursday, Abby Zwerner, then 25, described how an ordinary school day became a life-or-death struggle when her first-grade student opened fire with a 9-millimeter handgun. The bullet passed through her left hand and remains in her chest, where it narrowly missed her heart.

"The last thing I remember at the school, I thought I was dying. I thought I had die

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