Teacher Shot by 6-year-old student seeks $40 million for Damages

The lawsuit states that school employees gave administrators a series of warnings in the hours before the shooting, beginning with Zwerner, who went to the office of assistant principal Ebony Parker between 11:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. She told Parker that the boy “was in a violent mood,” threatened to beat up a kindergartener, and stared down a security officer in the lunchroom. The lawsuit alleges that Parker “had no response, refusing even to look up at (Zwerner) when she expressed her concerns,”

The boy denied and refused to provide his backpack to look up after two students saw a firearm in his possession in the reading room. Zwerner told Kovac, the reading specialist that she had seen the boy take something out of his backpack and put it into the pocket of his sweatshirt. Kovac searched the backpack and didn’t find a weapon.

Kovac told Ebony Parker, that around 11:45 a.m., she’d been alerted by two students that the boy had a gun and Parker responded that “pockets were too small to hold a handgun and did nothing.”

A first-grade boy also reported seeing the gun, and the boy’s teacher informed the office and a music teacher, and both heard of the boy’s firearm possession and let Parker know. About one hour later, the boy shot the gun out of his pocket to aim at Zwerner and shot her.

The boy used his mother’s gun which had been purchased legally. An attorney for the boy’s family has said that the firearm was secured on a high closet shelf and had a lock on it.

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