NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The year before a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School, he choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” a pending claim against the Newport News school division contends.
And two days before the first-grader shot and wounded 25-year-old Abigail Zwerner during class, he “slammed” her cellphone and broke the device, the claim asserts. That resulted in the boy’s one-day suspension the next day.
Zwerner’s attorney, Diane Toscano, previously announced the teacher’s intention to sue the school division, and laid out a timeline of warnings about the boy having a gun on the day of the shooting.
