fifth grader at similar Va. faculty the place 6-year-old shot trainer eliminated after threatening to ‘pop bullets’

Weeks after a 6-year-old shot and injured a trainer at Richneck Elementary Faculty in Virginia final month, a fifth grade scholar has been eliminated after making a risk to “pop some bullets,” officers mentioned Monday.

Karen Lynch, the administrator on particular task at Richneck, mentioned in a letter to oldsters Monday the risk got here to mild in a textual content message amongst a gaggle of fifth grade college students on Saturday.

“One of many college students said that they’d ‘pop some bullets’ and inform somebody to shoot up the category,” Lynch wrote to oldsters.

One of many college students reported this to their mother or father, who contacted a trainer, who went on to tell directors. 

“I instantly contacted the scholar’s mother or father and excluded the scholar from faculty,” Lynch mentioned. 

The coed was not recognized. It isn’t clear for a way lengthy the scholar might be faraway from the college.

Lynch mentioned that the scholar conduct and self-discipline workplace in addition to police have been notified.

“An intensive investigation is underway with the police division. A risk evaluation can be in progress,” Lynch mentioned. “Threats and security issues are at all times taken very severely. Please relaxation assured that each one protocols are being adopted and this incident is being addressed accordingly.”

She thanked the scholar and mother or father for his or her “swift motion” in flagging the potential risk.

Faculty was closed for President’s Day on Monday, however lessons will resume Tuesday.

The newest incident comes six weeks after a 6-year-old scholar shot first grade trainer Abigal Zwerner, leaving her severely wounded in a hand and her chest and hospitalized. 

Zwerner survived and is recovering.

On Jan. 25, Zwerner’s legal professional, Diane Toscano, made a sequence of allegations that the administration at Richneck ignored a number of warnings, together with at the least three by academics, that might have prevented the capturing.

No prices have been introduced within the 6-year-old’s case. Newport Information Police Chief Steve Drew has mentioned the boy’s mom legally bought the 9 mm Taurus firearm used within the capturing. Whether or not the gun was secured on the house is being investigated, Drew has mentioned.

The boy’s household mentioned in a assertion final month that the gun was “secured” when he took it from their house. It didn’t go into additional element.

“Our household has at all times been dedicated to accountable gun possession and protecting firearms out of the attain of youngsters. The firearm our son accessed was secured,” mentioned the assertion, launched by James Ellenson, the household’s legal professional.