Jury deliberates in $40M lawsuit filed against administrator by teacher who was shot by 6-year-old
November 5, 2025
A jury in Virginia has started deliberations in a lawsuit filed against a former school administrator accused of ignoring repeated warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun hours before a teacher was shot. Former teacher Abby Zwerner filed the $40 million lawsuit against Ebony Parker, an ex-assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News. Zwerner was shot in January 2023 in her first-grade classroom. A bullet damaged her left hand and remains in her chest. Parker is the only defendant in the lawsuit. Zwerner’s attorneys say Parker failed to act after several school staff members told her that the student had a gun in his backpack.