There was no fight, no physical struggle and no warning in the moments before a 6-year-old Virginia boy shot his teacher, US authorities said.
"What we know today is that she was providing instruction. He displayed a firearm, he pointed it and he fired one round," Newport News police Chief Steve Drew said.
Drew gave the first detailed description of a shooting that shocked the city and was notable even in a country like the United States that seems inured to constant gun violence.