A former Virginia schoolteacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student two years ago took the stand for an emotional day of testimony at a civil trial against a school administrator.
Abigail Zwerner was seriously wounded and ended up having multiple surgeries. “I thought I was dying, I thought I had died,” she testified. “I thought I was on my way to heaven or in heaven, but then it all got black.”
Ms Zwerner filed a $40m (£31.5m) lawsuit against the former assistant principal of the school Ebony Parker, saying Ms Parker failed to act when she was allegedly warned that the young boy may have brought a gun to school that day. Ms Parker's lawyer said she could not have known what would happen.
In January of 2023, the child fired a single shot at Ms Zwerner as she was teaching her first-grade class at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. The bullet went through her hand and into her chest.
"The look on the student's face is the large memory that I have," Ms Zwerner said.
