Virginia teacher shows signs of improvement as US authorities struggle to understand how a six-year-old student could be involved in school shooting
Virginia law does not allow 6-year-olds to be tried as adults.
"It's very rare and i'’s not something the legal system is really designed or positioned to deal with," said researcher David Riedman, founder of aHe said that he's only aware of three other shootings caused by six-year-old students in the time period he's studied. "A 6 year old gaining access to a loaded gun and shooting him/herself or someone else, sadly, is not so rare," he said in an email.Parents and students were reunited at a gymnasium, Newport News Public Schools said via Facebook.
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