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School administrator admitted she didn’t search 6-year-old who shot teacher Abby Zwerner after hearing he may have a gun

Nypost · · 768 words · By Priscilla DeGregory
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“A Virginia school administrator admitted she didn’t search a 6-year-old boy after hearing he may have brought a gun to school and stashed it in his pockets the day he shot his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner”
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Multiple sources confirm that assistant principal Ebony Parker ignored warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun before he shot teacher Abby Zwerner. Specifically, reports mention a grand jury detailing how adults and students reported the gun and that Parker confessed to being told about the gun in a backpack.
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web search NEUTRAL — The mother of the six-year-old boy was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon, making false statements, and child neglect in relation to the shooting and was sentenced to. 3+3⁄4 years in prison.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Abby_Zwerner
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web search NEUTRAL — A Virginia teacher who was shot in her classroom by a 6-year-old student filed a $40 million lawsuit against her school district.
https://abcnews.com/US/school-officials-told-1st-grader-gun-…
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web search NEUTRAL — ‘Shocking': Assistant principal ignored warnings that 6-year-old boy had gun before he shot teacher, report says. A grand jury detailed how multiple students and adults reported the presence of a gun …
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/shocking-assistant-…
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“Former Richneck Elementary School assistant principal Ebony Parker — who is on trial for child neglect charges tied to the shooting — made the admission to a human resources investigator just three days after the student shot Zwerner on Jan. 6, 2023.”
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Multiple sources confirm Ebony Parker was the assistant principal at Richneck Elementary and faced charges of child neglect related to the January 6, 2023, shooting of Abby Zwerner. Evidence from AOL and CNN confirms the trial and the specific date of the event.
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“Parker recounted to the investigator that she told school counselor Rolonzo Rawles that another teacher searched the child’s backpack and didn’t find a weapon on the day of the shooting.”
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Evidence from AOL and American Renaissance confirms that Dr. Nina Farrish (HR director) testified that Parker confessed to being told about the gun, and Rolonzo Rawles (counselor) testified regarding the search and Parker's response.
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web search NEUTRAL — The counselor, Rolonzo Rawles, testified Tuesday that he asked Parker if he could search JT's person for a gun, and that she responded that the student's mother would be arriving to get him soon and t…
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/civil-trial-be…
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web search NEUTRAL — Rolonzo Rawles, school guidance counselor. Mr. Rawles testified that he had been informed that JT had told another first-grader, identified as R, that JT had bullets and would shoot R if he told anyon…
https://www.amren.com/blog/2025/11/zwerner-vs-parker-day-one…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dr. Nina Farrish, the director of human resources for the Newport News school district, testified that a few days after the shooting, Parker confessed that she was told about the student carrying a gu…
https://www.aol.com/articles/principal-ignored-warnings-6-ol…
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“the child shot Zwerner in her classroom in front of her other students”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources explicitly confirm that on January 6, 2023, a six-year-old male student shot Abby Zwerner in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School.
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web search NEUTRAL — On January 6, 2023, Abby Zwerner, an American schoolteacher, was seriously injured when a six-year-old male student shot her while she was teaching at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virgi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Abby_Zwerner
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web search NEUTRAL — Zwerner was shot in January 2023 in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. Her complaint alleged the school's assistant principal at the time, Ebony Parker, failed to a…
https://www.aol.com/articles/jury-awards-10-million-teacher-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Abby Zwerner was shot after an "altercation" with a six-year-old pupil. A six-year-old child used his mother's legally purchased handgun to shoot his teacher at a US school, police said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64210387
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“Kovac testified Tuesday that she went to Parker twice about the boy, the first time after two “shaken” girls told her they saw the gun and bullets in his bag and a second time after Zwerner texted Kovac that the boy’s hands were in his jacket pocket for the “entire time” at recess.”
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The provided web search results for this specific claim returned general information about 'Reading' (the activity) and 'Reading Eggs' rather than testimony from a person named Amy Kovac. No evidence in the provided set corroborates this specific testimony.
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“Parker is facing eight counts of child neglect for each of the bullets that were in the 9mm handgun the child brought into school.”
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Three independent sources (CNN, and two other web reports) explicitly state that Ebony Parker is charged with eight counts of felony child neglect/abuse, with one count for each of the eight bullets in the handgun.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ebony Parker has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of felony child abuse. Peter Casey/Pool/The Virginian-Pilot/AP.The dueling narratives marked the start of Parker’s trial on eight counts of felony c…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/us/ebony-parker-trial
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web search NEUTRAL — Parker is charged with eight counts of felony child neglect, one for each of the eight bullets in the gun that was brought into the classroom of Richneck Elementary schoolteacher Abby Zwerner in Janua…
https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/ebony-parker-trial-may-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ebony Parker is charged with eight counts of felony child neglect in the January 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.The eight counts Parker faces include one for eac…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-official-nothing…
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“Zwerner told the jury Tuesday that just three days earlier, the boy had chucked her cell phone on the floor, cracking the screen”
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“another first-grade teacher, Jennifer West, told jurors a student, R.R., came to her after spending recess with the shooter, reporting to her he had a gun.”
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Multiple sources confirm that teacher Jennifer West testified that a student reported the 6-year-old had a gun and bullets after recess.
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web search NEUTRAL — Another first-grade teacher, Jennifer West, also claimed that she reported to the school administration and another counselor that one of her students also saw the boy with a gun and bullet after rece…
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/teacher-shot-by-6-year-old-stu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Several teachers and employees at Richneck Elementary School said they voiced concerns about a student having a gun in school before the 6-year-old shot his first grade teacher one afternoon in ear…
https://solwd.net/teachers-at-richneck-elementary-say-they-v…
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web search NEUTRAL — Another teacher – referred to as “Teacher 3” in the intent-to-sue letter – became aware of the gun a little after 1 p.m. when a student from Zwerner’s classroom said the 6-year-old showed it to him at…
https://www.wavy.com/news/letter-richneck-administrator-who-…
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“Judge Rebecca Robinson denied the request [for a mistrial]”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Judge Rebecca Robinson or a mistrial request.
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“Zwerner last year won a $10 million judgment against Parker at a civil trial”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a $10 million civil judgment.
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“The boy’s mom, Deja Taylor, is serving nearly four years in prison for child neglect and gun charges after the boy found the gun in her purse at home.”
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