{"id":11444,"date":"2023-01-07T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2023-01-07T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T12:35:40","slug":"six-year-old-boy-shoots-teacher-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/six-year-old-boy-shoots-teacher-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-Year-Old Boy Shoots Teacher In US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No students were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newport News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe individual is a six-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,\u201d local police chief Steve Drew told a news conference, adding that \u201cthis was not an accidental shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said that the victim was a teacher in her 30s and her injuries were believed to be life-threatening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in shock, and I\u2019m disheartened,\u201d said the city\u2019s superintendent of schools, George Parker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need the community\u2019s support to make sure that guns are not available to youth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>School shootings plague the United States, with recent tragedies including the killing last May of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old gunman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were an estimated 44,000 gun-related deaths in the United States last year, about half of them murder cases, accidents and self-defence, and half of them suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive database<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said. &#8230; <a title=\"Six-Year-Old Boy Shoots Teacher In US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/six-year-old-boy-shoots-teacher-in-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Six-Year-Old Boy Shoots Teacher In US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[501],"tags":[483,24],"class_list":["post-11444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-crime","tag-flatnews","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}