A jury awarded $10 million to former first grade Virginia teacher Abby Zwerner, who was shot and seriously wounded by a 6-year-old student in 2023, in a civil case that accused the school’s former assistant principal of ignoring multiple warnings the day of the shooting. Zwerner, 25, was shot in the hand and chest by a…
An attorney for Abby Zwerner, the first-grade teacher shot and wounded by a 6-year-old student earlier this month in Newport News, Virginia, said that the administrators of Richneck Elementary School had multiple warnings that the unidentified boy was armed, but “failed to act” on those reports. In a news conference on Wednesday, Diane Toscano, a defense…
The 13-year-old boy arrested for allegedly making school-shooting threats in Pierce County and whose home held nearly two dozen firearms has been released to electronic home monitoring so he can attend mental health counseling. He was charged last month in Juvenile Court with attempted threat to bomb or injure property, three counts of second-degree unlawful…
Outrage on Cape Cod after judge rules teen accused in school shooting plot can be released A judge presiding over a Tuesday dangerousness hearing ruled that an 18-year-old man accused of plotting a school shooting on Cape Cod can be released from custody on $2,500 bail on Wednesday. The decision to allow the release of…
A teen who opened fire in a Colorado high school this week was active on a so-called “violent gore” site months before the attack, the Anti-Defamation League said in a report released Friday. Colorado officials said Desmond Holly, 16, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot after injuring two students at Evergreen High School, had been “radicalized by…
Watch CBS News “Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including veteran CBS News Radio White House correspondent Mark Knoller. Source link
Minneapolis school shooting prompts safety discussions – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News homeland security contributor Sam Vinograd speaks with “CBS Mornings Plus” about safety in schools as lawmakers and others reignite the discussion following the deadly Minneapolis Catholic school shooting. Source link
Father of preschooler talks about Minneapolis school shooting and reuniting with his daughter – CBS News Watch CBS News Zach Semon speaks with “CBS Mornings Plus” about the deadly Minneapolis Catholic school shooting. Semon has a 4-year-old daughter who was in her classroom one floor below the on-campus church when the shooting took place. Source…
Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith excoriated Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for suggesting that antidepressants could have caused the deadly shooting at a church in Minneapolis. “I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do,” Smith wrote. “Just shut up….
Man describes rushing to help Minneapolis school shooting victims – CBS News Watch CBS News Pat Scallen lives near the school where the shooting happened Wednesday in Minneapolis. He describes hearing the gunshots and rushing to the scene, where he stayed with three of the injured children until first responders arrived. Source link