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school-6-year-old-shot-teacher-cha-rcna147041

The former assistant principal of a Virginia elementary school where a 6-
year-old student shot his teacher last year has been indicted on child
abuse charges, court records show.

Ebony Parker faces eight counts related to the day of the shooting,
according to the online docket, each of which carries a maximum sentence
of five years in prison. A warrant has been issued for her arrest, the
docket shows.

Court records filed in Newport News Circuit Court were unsealed Tuesday,
about a month after a grand jury filed the charges.

NBC News could not immediately obtain a copy of the indictment for details
of the charges.

The Newport News Commonwealth Attorney's Office did not immediately
respond Tuesday to a request for comment. A Newport News Public Schools
spokesperson said the district "does not have a statement." It was not
immediately known whether Parker had legal representation, and she could
not be reached for comment.

The shooting of first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner on Jan. 6, 2023,
raised concerns about potential security failures at Richneck Elementary
School in Newport News and in a school district rattled by other incidents
of gun violence at other campuses.

Authorities say Zwerner was intentionally shot by one of her students but
escorted her panicked class to safety. A bullet ripped through Zwerner's
left hand, rupturing bones, before it lodged in her upper chest, leaving
behind fragments.

Three months after the shooting, she filed a $40 million lawsuit against
the school district alleging that administrators failed to listen to
multiple warnings from staff members and students that the child had a
handgun. Parker resigned in the wake of the suit.

Lawyers for Zwerner welcomed additional charges Tuesday.

�These charges are very serious and underscore the failure of the school
district to act to prevent the tragic shooting of Abby Zwerner,� attorneys
Diane Toscano, Kevin Biniazan and Jeffrey Breit said in a statement. �The
school board continues to deny their responsibility to Abby, and this
indictment is just another brick in the wall of mounting failures and
gross negligence in their case.�

Toscano said in an interview that aired Wednesday on NBC's "TODAY" show
that Parker �should have called the police after multiple warnings that a
child may have a gun.�

Breit noted that a student saw the boy take the gun out of his pocket on
the playground and reported it to a teacher. When the teacher requested to
search the child�s person, �the assistant principal said no,� he said.

The boy's mother, Deja Taylor, was sentenced to two years in December on a
state charge of felony child neglect.

Taylor must begin her state sentence after she finishes serving 21 months
on a related federal charge. She pleaded guilty in June to a charge of
using marijuana while owning a gun, which is illegal under federal law,
and was sentenced in November.

James Ellenson, a lawyer for Taylor, told NBC News on Tuesday that he
would have wanted to see charges against school officials sooner,
believing his client does not share all the burden of responsibility on
the day of the shooting.

The charges against a former school official represent a new frontier in
school gun-violence-related prosecution, Ellenson added.

"I think we're plowing new ground," he said.

NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos added that "cases like these are
about sending a very clear message: that school shootings are so horrible,
we are willing to depart from the traditional rules and hold people
responsible that really, historically, have not been held responsible
before."

The local prosecutor, Howard Gwynn, told NBC News after the shooting that
he would not seek charges against the student, given his age.

Seven separate lawsuits were filed in January on behalf of parents and
guardians claiming multiple counts of negligence against school
leadership. Emily Mapp Brannon, a lawyer for the families, said in a
statement that "the suffering of the students of Richneck has been
ignored."

"These charges suggest that there is sufficient evidence that the students
of Richneck were placed in peril by the very hands entrusted to protect
them," Brannon said. "As a representative of seven families, I remain
optimistic that our criminal justice system will provide answers to the
Richneck community. For the first time in over a year, the families may
find comfort in knowing that the administration is being held
accountable."

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