Six-Year-Old Who Shot Teacher Tells Police 'If You Want a Piece of Me, Come Get It' in Newly Released Bodycam
The recording shows the boy cursing at officers and admitting he took his mother’s gun as the teacher recovers from gunshot wounds.
- On Tuesday, Oct 6, 2026, newly public bodycam footage from Officer Brian Torrez shows a 6-year-old student cursing at police following the January 2023 shooting of his teacher at Richneck Elementary School.
- The incident occurred on January 6, 2023, when the first-grade student shot teacher Abby Zwerner, whose bullet wound passed through her hand and chest, leaving her with life-threatening injuries.
- Captured by Torrez's camera, the nearly three-minute recording shows reading specialist Amy Kovac restraining the boy as he swears at officers and admits taking the 9mm Taurus handgun from his mother.
- Judge Rebecca M. Robinson ordered the footage unsealed following a media challenge from The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press; the video served as a prosecution exhibit during former assistant principal Ebony Parker's May 2026 trial.
- A jury awarded Zwerner $10 million in her civil case, while the boy, now nine or 10, remains in his great-grandfather's custody following his mother Deja Nicole Taylor's prison release in February.
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Richneck shooting: Bodycam video shows aftermath of classroom attack on Abby Zwerner
Newly unsealed body camera video shows the moments after a 6-year-old shot his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner, inside a Richneck Elementary School classroom in January 2023.
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