6-year-old boy shoots teacher at US school, police say It wasn’t an accident.”

Washington: A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said. No student was injured in the incident at Richneck Elementary School.

Local police chief Steve Drew told a news conference, “The child is a six-year-old student. He is currently in police custody. Police said the victim teacher is in her 30s and her injury is life-threatening.
George Parker, superintendent of city schools, said: “I’m in shock, and disappointed. We need community support to ensure that guns are not within reach of children.”
Last May, an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. According to the Gun Violence Archive database, there were an estimated 44,000 gun-related deaths in the United States last year.