A jury awarded Abby Zwerner, a former teacher in Virginia who was shot in 2023 by her 6-year-old student, $10 million after she filed a lawsuit claiming negligence by the school's former assistant principal, Ebony Parker.

Newport News School District's insurance authority will be liable to pay out the money awarded to Zwerner. She had asked for $40 million in her original filing.

The seven-person jury found Parker grossly negligent in preventing the unprecedented shooting after a day of deliberations.

The verdict comes nearly three years after Zwerner was shot by her student in her first-grade classroom at Richneck Elementary School on Jan. 6, 2023. The bullet passed through her hand, pierced her chest and caused significant injuries, including a collapsed lung.

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