‘I don’t care if I go to jail’: Newly released video shows 6-year-old defiant after Virginia school shooting

A 6-year-old young boy who shot his Virginia grade school instructor in 2023 is seen cursing at policeman in a freshly launched body electronic camera video.”Where is the weapon?” one officer asks. “It’s over there,” the kid states, cursing at the officer. “If you desire a piece of me, come everything, b–,” the kid states. The video reveals the minutes after the first-grader shot Abigail Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on Jan. 6, 2023. The bullet tore through her hand before striking her in the chest, where it stays. At a civil trial versus the school’s previous assistant principal, Ebony Parker, a medical professional affirmed that eliminating the bullet would be even more hazardous than leaving it in location. Zwerner affirmed at the trial that she believed she was passing away after she was shot. “I believed I was on my method to paradise or in paradise,” she stated. “But then everything got black.” Zwerner, who no longer teaches, was granted $10 million in damages, plus interest, in 2015, after a jury discovered that Parker overlooked cautions that the kid had a weapon in his knapsack. The jury stated that the shooting might have been prevented which Parker’s gross neglect caused the occurrence.Previous Richneck Elementary School instructor Abby Zwerner awaits court to start in Newport News, Va., in 2025.Stephen M. Katz/ The Virginian-Pilot through GettyIn the video, the kid likewise appears to curse at a various instructor, who is limiting him as authorities start processing the scene. “My mother had that,” the kid states, in recommendation to the weapon. “I took that from my mommy.” At another point, the kid screams at the officers. “Both of y’ all desire a f– ing piece of me, b–,” he states. The instructor holding him states the kid still has weapon residue on his hands. The video was at first sealed throughout Parker’s criminal trial, where she was charged with 8 counts of kid disregard. A judge dismissed the case in May, ruling that Parker had actually not dedicated a criminal offense under state law. The judge chose to launch the video however bought the kid’s face be blurred. “I do not care if you call backup,” the kid informs authorities. “I do not care if I go to prison.” The kid’s mom, Deja Taylor, was jailed after the shooting on a state charge of felony kid overlook and a federal weapons charge. In 2023 she was sentenced to 2 years in jail on the kid disregard charge and 21 months on the weapons charge.