A Virginia jury has found a former elementary school administrator liable for $10 million in the shooting of a first grade teacher by a 6-year-old student.
Former first grade educator Abigail Zwerner sued Ebony Parker , the former vice principal of Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., for gross negligence, alleging Parker failed to act on multiple warnings that the 6-year-old boy had a gun and was acting alarmingly the day of the shooting.
Over the first three days of testimony, the seven-person jury heard from 16 witnesses called by the Zwerner’s legal team — who described how the events unfolded that day and the toll the incident has taken on the ex teacher — who still carries a bullet fragment inside her body to this day.
Zwerner — who was 25 at the time and had only be

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