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Jury deliberations begin in lawsuit filed by Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old student
The trial could set precedent for school shooting liability as 64 US shootings occurred this year, including 27 on K-12 grounds, officials said.
- A Newport News jury late Wednesday began deliberations in a $40 million civil lawsuit filed by Abby Zwerner, former Richneck Elementary first-grade teacher, against Ebony Parker.
- The lawsuit says Parker ignored repeated staff warnings, alleging she learned of a possible gun more than an hour and 20 minutes before the shooting.
- Medical testimony showed Abby Zwerner spent nearly two weeks hospitalized, required six surgeries, retains a bullet fragment two centimeters from aorta, and suffers PTSD with changed public demeanor.
- Jurors must decide legal fault and causation as the judge instructed them to weigh Ebony Parker's gross negligence and Zwerner's possible negligence, while Parker faces a criminal trial next month.
- Experts differed on whether the shooting was foreseeable, as Dr. Amy Klinger testified it was hard to predict and Darryl K. Brown called the trial a `dry run` for the criminal case.
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Daily PressJury deliberates in civil trial stemming from Richneck Elementary School shooting
A Newport News Circuit Court jury has begun deliberating in the case of a Richneck Elementary School teacher shot by a 6-year-old student in 2023.
·Norfolk, United States
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Jury deliberates in $40M lawsuit filed against administrator by teacher who was shot by 6-year-old
A jury in Virginia has started deliberations in a lawsuit filed against a former school administrator accused of ignoring repeated warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun hours before a teacher was shot.
·United States
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Jury deliberations begin in lawsuit filed by Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old student
The jury has started deliberations in the $40 million lawsuit filed by a former Virginia teacher shot by her 6-year-old student in a case that could set a dramatic precedent for who to blame after school shootings.
·Atlanta, United States
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