Teacher injured in shooting of 6-year-old student in the United States ordered to pay $10 million in damages

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A judge in the US state of Virginia has ordered former teacher Abby Zorner to pay $10 million in damages.On Thursday, the judge sided with the teacher in her lawsuit. Zorner claimed that the six-year-old student had a gun in the classroom — despite repeated warnings to a former school administrator about it — but he did not take any action.Teacher Zorner is 28 years old.

He was shot while sitting at a reading table in January 2023. He was in the hospital for about two weeks and had to undergo six surgeries. He still cannot use his left hand fully.The bullet was fired by a six-year-old student. The bullet narrowly missed Zorner's heart and is still in his body.Zorner did not face reporters outside the courthouse after the judge's announcement. He was seeking $40 million in damages from Ebony Parker, the former vice principal of Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.Diane Toscano, one of Zorner's lawyers, said the verdict sent a message that what happened at the school was wrong and that such actions will not be tolerated and that safety at the school is of the utmost importance.Zorner's lawyers argued that Parker, the former vice principal, did not take action in the hours before the shooting.

School staff told him that the student had a gun in his backpack."Who would have thought that a six-year-old would bring a gun to school and shoot his teacher?" Toscano asked the jury."Parker's job is to believe that it is possible. It is his responsibility to investigate the incident and find out the whole truth." Parker did not testify in the case.The mother of the student who shot Zorner was sentenced to four years in prison for neglecting a child and weapons charges, but the child was not charged. The child said he found his mother's gun by climbing up a drawer, where his mother had kept it in a bag.