Virginia school shooting: 6-year-old arrested for shooting female teacher, condition critical.

According to officials, a six-year-old child intentionally shot a teacher at an elementary school in Virginia on Friday afternoon.

The youngster accused of shooting a female teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport, Virginia, a city in the state’s southeast, has been detained, according to police.

According to police, they learned about 2 pm that the teacher had been shot inside the school following some sort of altercation.

According to Newport police Chief Drew, “We did not have a situation where someone was roaming around the school firing.” “We have a case where a bullet was discharged in one specific location.”

The shooting, he said, was not an accident.

The teacher, a woman in her 30s, was rushed to a nearby hospital to be treated for injuries that were “believed to be life-threatening,” according to the police department. The student was later taken to jail. By late afternoon, according to Drew, the teacher’s condition had slightly improved.

He made no mention of the specifics of how the youngster is believed to have obtained the firearm used in the shooting. However, the chief informed reporters that as officers processed evidence still present at the gunshot scene, youngsters on the campus had been relocated to the school gymnasium where they were “secure.”

Additionally, Drew mentioned that there were “plenty of counselors” working with the youngsters to try and maintain their composure.

The return of all of our students to their families is our top objective, he declared.

According to a police statement, officers had divided the youngsters by grade level as part of a procedure to reunite them with their parents.

It’s a good, happy reunion with some emotion, but everything is safe right now, Drew added. “A cop and a school administrator are taking the student to their parents.”

Even though Congress enacted a bill last year that tightened limitations on access to firearms for some persons who are seen to be in danger of committing violence, Friday’s massacre will almost surely fuel debate about curbing public access to guns in the US.

The shooting deaths of 10 people in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and 21 people at a school in Uvalde, Texas, were two high-profile incidents of gun violence that occurred across the US last year.