Police have said the boy brought a 9mm handgun to school and intentionally shot his teacher.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Steeped-security and a new school administrator will be present as students return to the Virginia elementary school where Richneck Elementary School in Newport News was set to reopen Monday, more than three weeks after the Jan. 6 shooting. Police have said the boy brought a 9mm handgun to school and intentionally shot his teacher, , as she was teaching her first-grade class. The 25-year-old teacher was hospitalized for nearly two weeks but is now recovering at home.
The Newport News school board cuts ties with the superintendent nearly three weeks after a 6-year-old shot a teacher. would be placed in every school in the district. At Richneck, two metal detection systems have been installed and two security officers have been assigned to the school, said Michelle Price, a spokesperson for the school district. Before the shooting, one security officer was assigned to Richneck and another elementary school.
The principal and assistant principal both left their jobs after the shooting, and a new administrator has been appointed to lead the school as part of a personnel shake-up.
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