Bodycam footage shows a 6-year-old on a reading specialist’s lap after he shot his teacher. Then he told police, ‘I stole that from my mom’

The teacher says she still didn’t recover full functionality of her left handPolice bodycam video released this week shows a six-year-old on a reading specialist’s lap inside Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, in the minutes after he shot his first-grade teacher. The boy, identified only as J.T., had already fired his mother’s 9mm handgun on January 6, 2023, striking Abigail Zwerner in the left hand and the upper left chest.