The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying “I shot [her] dead”, unsealed court documents show.
While being restrained after the shooting at a Virginia school, the boy is said to have admitted “I did it”, adding “I got my mom’s gun last night”.
His teacher, Abigail “Abby” Zwerner - who survived - filed a $40m (£31.4m) lawsuit earlier this year.
The boy has not been charged.
The boy’s mother, however, Deja Taylor, has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanour recklessly leaving a loaded firearm as to endanger a child.
In Ms Zwerner’s lawsuit, filed in April, she accuses school officials of gross negligence for ignoring warning signs and argues the defendants knew the child "had a history of random violence
The documents also mention another incident with the same student while he was in kindergarten. A retired teacher told police he started “choking her to the point she could not breathe”.
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It’s probably a case of her thinking she can not defend herself out of fear of backlash. Teachers have been charged with assault when defending themselves from students.
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lol, ok. Must be nice living in fantasy land where all consequences can be dealt with later.
losing your career and being sued into oblivion by the kids parents sounds like a real good choice!
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She’s alive, so she didn’t let him strangle her to death. But you bet your ass, any teachers who want to stay in the profession are waiting until there’s no other choice before putting their hands on a kid, even if it’s just to push them away. And she was like a year away from retirement? Definitely not doing anything to mess that up; many teachers still get pensions if they retire.
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