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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore and agencies

Virginia school teacher shot by six-year-old student awarded $10m in damages

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Abigail Zwerner with her mother Julie outside court on Thursday. Photograph: Kendall Warner/AP

A Virginia schoolteacher who was shot by her six-year-old student in 2023 has been awarded $10m in damages by a jury, concluding a negligence lawsuit she brought against a school administrator.

Abigail Zwerner alleged that an assistant principal at the Newport News elementary school, where she used to teach, ignored multiple reports that a gun was on school property and probably in the possession of the boy who shot her in January 2023.

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