Former Newport News teacher shot by 6-year-old student speaks out 1 year after incident
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Former Richneck Elementary School teacher Abby Zwerner said she continues to struggle physically and mentally one year after she was shot by a student in her classroom.
In the year since she was shot by a student in her Virginia classroom, former Richneck Elementary School teacher Abby Zwerner said she continues to struggle physically and mentally.
"I went through something very traumatic. I'm trying to still deal with it the best that I can," Zwerner told Hampton, Virginia, ABC affiliate WVEC in an interview that aired Friday. "I still have good days, still have bad days. You never know what you're going to feel when you wake up."
Zwerner was in the middle of teaching her first grade class on Jan. 6, 2023, when police say her then-6-year-old student intentionally shot her. The bullet went through her hand and then into her chest, and she was initially hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
During a sit-down interview with WVEC in her attorney's office, Toscano Law Group, Zwerner, 26, said she has undergone five surgeries in the year since the shooting.
"It's just very slow progression, very slow, you know, growth and getting the functions of the hand again, which I will not get back the way it fully was," Zwerner said.
