NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) -- Closing arguments were delivered Wednesday in Abby Zwerner's trial against the Newport News School Division and former assistant principal Ebony Parker over a 2023 classroom shooting at Richneck Elementary.

Zwerner's attorney Kevin Biniazan recounted Parker's alleged failure to act on repeated warnings that a 6-year-old student had brought a gun.

“A gun changes everything," said Biniazan. "You stop and you investigate.”

Zwerner's legal team adds Parker was alerted by multiple staff members about the boy's behavior that day.

Parker's attorney Sandra Douglas argued she used "real-time judgement, not hindsight judgments" to respond to an unprecedented shooting.

"Your job is to consider only what Dr. Parker knew at the time," said Douglas.

She also questioned

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