According to police and school officials in the Virginia city, a six-year-old pupil shot and injured a teacher during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom.
According to police, no pupils were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School.
The teacher, a 30-year-old lady, sustained fatal wounds.
Steve Drew, the chief of police in Newport News, reported that by late afternoon, her condition had slightly improved.
Police reported that they had taken the student into custody after discovering the child in the classroom with a weapon.
According to Drew, there was no instance of someone avoiding the school shooting.
We have a circumstance where a gunshot was fired in a specific location.
The shooting, he said, was not an accident.
At the entrance to the gym, parents and children were reunited, Newport News Public Schools posted on Facebook.
A city of around 185,000 people in southeast Virginia, Newport News is well-known for its shipyard, where the nation’s aircraft carriers and other US Navy vessels are constructed.
According to the website of the Virginia Department of Education, there are roughly 550 kids attending Richneck who are in kindergarten through fifth grade.
There won’t be any classes at the school on Monday, according to school authorities.
