The first day of school shootings: Abigail Zwerner, a Rhode Island educator, and the Newport News narco-homogeneous superintendent

The teacher, who was shot in her classroom by a student in January, spoke of her experience for the first time in an interview with NBC.

“I remember him pointing the gun at me, I remember the look on his face,” Abigail Zwerner told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie in an interview that aired Tuesday, more than two months after the January 6 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News left her hospitalized with gunshot wounds to the hand and chest. I remember the gun going off.

She told NBC that some days, she can’t get out of bed. I am able to get out of bed and make it to my appointments on some days. But from going through what I’ve gone through, I try to stay positive.”

The boy who was accused of shooting Zwerner will not be charged according to the Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney.

The children were evacuated from the school and taken to the buses to be with their families after the shooting. The video shows the children holding hands and walking in a line with community members embracing.

Diane Toscano is the attorney for Zwerner, and she claims that teachers and employees warned officials of a student who was threatening people and had a gun. The administrators failed to act despite knowing of the imminent danger, according to Toscano.

The fallout from the incident was swift, drawing harsh criticism from parents and leading the school board to vote to oust Superintendent George Parker III. Two weeks after the shooting, the assistant principal resigned and the principal was sent to another school, but the district did not say where.

CNN was told by the school district that it couldn’t comment on if anyone else was made aware of a potential gun on campus because it was part of an ongoing investigation.

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Zwerner said the bullet tore through her left hand and then hit her in the chest.

“I was terrified,” she said. I thought that my children need to get out of here. ‘This is not a safe classroom anymore.’ I wanted to get my babies out of there.

The outpouring of support from her family and complete strangers is “hard to comprehend sometimes,” she said, but is deeply appreciated and “truly inspiring.”

“But I am following very closely the Newport News prosecutor to see what they do in this case and who they do charge, ultimately, if they do charge anybody.”

“My job is to hold those accountable that I can hold accountable,” Toscano said, “and I’m going to do that. It is going to be difficult for her to deal with this for the rest of her life.

Indeed, Zwerner – who NBC reported could not get into details about what occurred prior to the shooting due to the potential litigation – is dealing not only with physical injuries, but emotional ones, too.

“I’m not sure when the shock will ever go away, because of just how surreal it was and you know, the vivid memories that I have of that day,” she said. I think about it every day. Sometimes I have nightmares.

Shooting a teenager in the back at East High School: Austin Lyle was killed by a vehicle in a wooded area

Hundreds of students were put into lock down at East High School after officials said that a teenager opened fire, wounding two administrators and causing many to go into hiding.

The suspect, later identified as Austin Lyle, fled the scene, police said. His car was found alongside a wooded road in nearby Park County on Wednesday evening, causing authorities to issue a shelter-in-place order for nearby areas.

The Park County Sheriff’s Office lifted their shelter-in-place order, but the coroner’s office later confirmed the body to be that of a man by the vehicle.

A student with an allergy was treated at the school by local paramedics who were able to help two people who had been shot.

The administrators were identified by the Denver Health as Eric Sinclair, dean of culture, and Jerald Mason, restorative practice couner. Sinclair remains in serious condition after undergoing surgery. Mason was discharged in stable condition.

The School Safety Plan for Lyle Lyle at Overland High School after the Shooting at 10:13 A.M. a Denver Public School

The police received a report of the shooting at 10:13 a.m. and heard gunshots on the second floor when they arrived at the school, a police spokesman, Don Aaron, said. Two officers killed the attacker in alobby-type area on the second floor, after they saw him shoot another person. The school does not have a police officer guarding it, he said.

Police wouldn’t answer questions about how long it took for the safety plan to be in place or the exact incidents that led to it. The school didn’t find a weapon on him before.

A spokesperson for the school district said that Lyle had been expelled from Overland High School in a neighboring district for “violating board policy,” according to Colorado Public Radio/Denverite.

Spring break begins the following Monday. As staff and the school board consider the future of security, two armed officers will remain at the school until the end of the year, Marrero said.

In 2020, Denver’s public school system decided to remove its armed school resource officers, which had monitored the school campuses, out of concerns for the treatment of young students of color, according to Denverite.

The shooter had two assault-style rifles and one pistol, authorities said, and the shooting took place in a “lobby-type area” in an upper part of the school. The shooter was dead by 10:27 a.m., Aaron added. Two of those guns were obtained legally, police said.

The Nashville Shooting: Revealing a Jacksonville Christian Elementary School’s Shooting. A 28-year-old man killed at a private school in Nashville

Opened in the late 1800s as the first high school in Denver, East High is considered to be one of the top schools in the city, according to Colorado Public Radio’s Ben Markus.

“This shouldn’t be a worry of a parent whether or not their children are safe in their building,” he said, from the campus grounds on Wednesday.

NASHVILLE — A 28-year-old from Nashville fatally shot three children and three adults on Monday at a private Christian elementary school, officials said, leaving behind writings and detailed maps of the school and its security protocols.

The shooter, who police said was a white 28-year-old from the Nashville area, was shot dead by two officers. Police initially identified the shooter as a woman but a spokesperson later told WPLN’s Alexis Marshall that the shooter was assigned female at birth and used he/him pronouns.

Hale, who attended a Christian school years ago, left writings that pertain to the shooting and had been looking at a second possible attack location in Nashville but because of a threat assessment by the suspect they decided not to.

The police chief said at the news conference that he was moved to tears by the sight of the children being ejected from the building.

The police in Nashville identified the six victims as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9, and the adults as Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher; Mike Hill, 61, a custodian; and Katherine Koonce, 60. According to the school’s website, Dr. Koonce was the head of school. Hallie Scruggs was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, according to a biography published online by his former church in Dallas. Covenant Presbyterian is connected to the elementary school.

A day after her son was killed during a mass shooting at a Nashville-area Waffle House, a mother said she was brought back to that painful moment as her other son was put on lock down.

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The police chief said that the shooter was prepared to do more harm than was done because they had multiple rounds of bullets.

Police believe Hale obtained at least two of the weapons legally after finding three weapons, according to Drake. A search warrant executed at Hale’s home also resulted in the seizure of a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other evidence, according to police.

The police released video of the school shooting on Monday night in which the shooter was shown in a Honda Fit. In the clip, two glass doors shatter from gunfire as the attacker ducks into a building.

The police went upstairs to confront the shooter who had fired through a window at arriving police cars. Two officers then opened fire, killing the shooter at 10:27 a.m., police spokesperson Don Aaron said.

I was hoping this would never happen in the city. But we will never wait to make entry and to go in and to stop a threat especially when it deals with our children,” Drake said in a Monday news conference.

The school had active shooter training for a reason. It isn’t something we like to think will happen to us. Nashville Metropolitan councilman Russ Pulley toldCNN that experience has taught them to be prepared because in today’s world, it is reality.

Katherine Koonce was identified as the head of the school on its website, which also says she attended school in Nashville at Vanderbilt University and Trevecca Nazarene University, along with getting her master’s degree from Georgia State University.

The staff section of the Covenant Presbyterian Church website was offline when Hill was identified. He was listed in the kitchen staff. A person confirmed Mike Hill’s image to CNN. Police said that Hill worked at the school.

It was an unimaginable tragedy for the victims, children, families, teachers, staff and my entire community, said Bob Freeman, who represents the district. I live around the corner from Covenant and pass by it often. I have friends who attend both church and school there. I’ve been to the church before. It makes me cry to see it, WPLN reported.

The shooting shattered the wealthy enclave of Green Hills, a few miles south of downtown Nashville, where the small school and stone church sit atop a hill, nestled in a residential neighborhood filled with stately homes and lush landscaping. The Covenant School is a small school with around 200 students and a teacher-to-student ratio of 8 to 1. Tuition costs around $16,000 per year.

Nashville Mayor John Cooper said he is “overwhelmed at the thought of the loss of these families, of the future lost by these children and their families.”

On the Nashville Shooting: President Biden, the Sheriff’s Office, and the Children’s Ministry in Monterey Park, Calif.

A recent study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics in December backs that point, finding that homicide is a leading cause of death for children in the United States and the overall rate has increased an average of 4.3% each year for nearly a decade.

Calling the Nashville shooting “sick” and “a family’s worst nightmare,” President Biden again pushed Congress on Monday to enact gun-control legislation. During his recent visit to Monterey Park, Calif., which was the scene of a massacre at a dance studio in January, he called for a ban on assault weapons.

The man dressed in camouflage pants, a black vest and a red baseball cap went through rooms and hallways with a weapon. At one point, the shooter can be seen walking in and out of the church office and down a hallway past the children’s ministry, as the lights of what appear to be a fire alarm flash.

There was confusion regarding the gender identity of the attacker. Drake said that the shooter was a woman. Officials used “she” and “her” to refer to the shooter, but, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, the shooter appeared to identify as male in recent months.

Chief Drake said it was too early to discuss a possible motive for the shooting, though he confirmed that the attack was targeted. Chief Drake said the authorities had made contact with the shooter’s father and that they were reviewing writings.

He said that they have a map of how the event would take place. There is a rumour that we could talk about it later but it is not confirmed, so we will put that out as soon as possible.

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On Monday, residents in the area were sent out of their homes because of sirens and the buzz of a helicopter, waiting for news about the shooting or reassured that their children had been released from nearby schools. A few women are gasping and shaking their heads at a news conference.

When you see parents running up the hill it is frightening, said Lisa DeBusk who is 43. She said that she had considered sending her daughter to Covenant.

Kendra Loney, a spokeswoman for the Nashville Fire Department, said that schoolchildren and members of the school’s staff were escorted out of the building after the shooting, and that a total of 108 people had been transported to the nearby Woodmont Baptist Church.

The pupils, dressed in their school clothes, were taken to a conference-like room inside the church and held hands as they walked from the buses. Parents were in the building waiting to hear if their children were okay.

The chair of the Metro Nashville School Board said that she was inside the worst waiting room she could imagine. She said that there were people debating how to manage the rest of the day after a traumatic morning.

They are figuring out how to talk to their children about this. “What is the next best step? What should they do next? Do we take them to get ice cream? Would you take them to the playground? Should we ask them what they saw? We shouldn’t ask what they saw. Do we bring them to school tomorrow? Is there school tomorrow?”

Covenant families, of whom Rachel Dibble knew through youth sports, had visited with her while her children were at a different private school.

“It has to stop,” Ms. Dibble said of school shootings. “I want a politician to sit in a church with families and 250 kids downstairs that are white as a sheet and trembling and gray and yellow and green and blue because of the shock.”

Speaking of the students, she added: “They started this morning, they had their cute little uniforms on, they probably had some Froot Loops. Today, their lives changed a lot.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/27/us/nashville-shooting-covenant-school/biden-calls-on-congress-to-pass-an-assault-weapons-ban-that-is-unlikely

Analyzing a New Mass Shooting Result from a Suspected Parenting Experience in Woodmont Baptist School, Ms. Trevathan, Los Angeles, June 2023

There isn’t a consensus on what constitutes a mass shooting. According to the Gun Violence Archive, a mass shooting is one in which at least four people are killed or injured. As of late March, the archive has counted 130 mass shootings in the United States in 2023.

K-12 school shooting database shows that shootings at elementary schools make up less than 20% of all gun violence on school grounds. Most incidents of gun violence on school campuses, including active shooter incidents, happen at high schools.

After spending time in Woodmont Baptist, Melissa Trevathan, the owner of a counseling ministry, grieved the loss of Dr. Koonce, whom she said she had gotten to know through her work with children. Ms. Trevathan, who had come with Pippa, a therapy dog in training, to offer support, characterized Dr. Koonce “very magnetic” and strong, and recalled her passion for education, sense of humor and love for adventure.

Emily Cochrane reported from Nashville. Jamie contributed to the story. Sarah Mervosh, Emily Schmall, Daniel Victor, Ruth Graham, and Victoria Kim contributed to the report. Kirsten Noyes , Susan C. Beachy and Kitty Bennett contributed research.

The young men and women who died in a medical facility are at the University Medical Center: A statement from Drake on the radiology news release

Drake said that the parents of the children who died have been notified. He said that he was moved to tears to see the kids being ushered out of the building.

The victims were taken to the emergency departments at the University Medical Center. A spokesperson for the hospital confirmed to NPR that three children and two adults sent to the hospital had died.