A 6-year-old pupil shot and wounded a Virginia instructor Friday throughout an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and college officers within the metropolis of Newport Information mentioned.

No college students had been injured within the taking pictures at Richneck Elementary Faculty, police mentioned. The instructor — a lady in her 30s — suffered life-threatening accidents. Newport Information Police Chief Steve Drew instructed reporters that her situation had improved considerably by late afternoon.

Police mentioned the kid had a handgun within the classroom and that they took that pupil into custody.

“We didn’t have a scenario the place somebody was going across the faculty taking pictures,” Drew instructed reporters. “We’ve a scenario in a single specific location the place a gunshot was fired.”

He added that the taking pictures was not an accident.

Mother and father and college students had been reunited at a gymnasium door, Newport Information Public Colleges mentioned on Fb.

Newport Information is a metropolis of about 185,000 individuals in southeastern Virginia recognized for its shipyard, which builds the nation’s plane carriers and different U.S. Navy vessels.

Richneck has about 550 college students who’re in kindergarten by fifth grade, in accordance with the Virginia Division of Schooling’s web site. Faculty officers have already mentioned that there will likely be no lessons on the faculty on Monday.