NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The lawyer for the former principal of Richneck Elementary School said Thursday that her client was never told the 6-year-old who shot his first-grade teacher may have had a gun at school that day.
Pamela Branch, a Richmond attorney specializing in employment law, said some people have assumed inaccurately that Briana Foster-Newton was among the school administrators who were reportedly warned about the firearm.
“Those who were aware that the student may have had a gun on the premises that day did not report this to Mrs. Newton at all,” she said.
