{"id":23,"date":"2026-05-20T21:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:12:46","slug":"school-administrator-admitted-she-didnt-search-6-year-old-who-shot-teacher-abby-zwerner-after-hearing-he-may-have-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"School administrator admitted she didn’t search 6-year-old who shot teacher Abby Zwerner after hearing he may have a gun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Virginia school administrator admitted she didn\u2019t search a 6-year-old boy after hearing he may have brought a gun to school and stashed it in his pockets the day he shot his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner, jurors learned Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Former Richneck Elementary School assistant principal Ebony Parker \u2014 who is on trial for child neglect charges tied to the shooting \u2014 made the admission to a human resources investigator just three days after the student shot Zwerner on Jan. 6, 2023. <\/p>\n

The shocking admission was revealed in a video of Parker getting grilled by the internal investigator that was shown to a jury on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Parker recounted to the investigator that she told school counselor Rolonzo Rawles that another teacher searched the child\u2019s backpack and didn\u2019t find a weapon on the day of the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Did you check their person?’\u201d Parker recalled Rawles asking her in reference to the first-grader.<\/p>\n

\u201cOof. No, we didn\u2019t,\u201d Parker said she responded to Rawles, who testified that he had asked if he could search the child.<\/p>\n

She added that since it was 1:40 p.m. and the student was on a modified schedule, his mom was coming to get him soon and they could do the search then.<\/p>\n

But the child shot Zwerner in her classroom in front of her other students before the boy\u2019s mom and school officials were ever able to search him.<\/p>\n

The assistant principal is accused of failing to act on the warnings by Zwerner and reading specialist Amy Kovac about the child acting alarmingly and how he might have had a firearm.<\/p>\n

In fact, Kovac testified Tuesday that she went to Parker twice about the boy, the first time after two \u201cshaken\u201d girls told her they saw the gun and bullets in his bag and a second time after Zwerner texted Kovac that the boy\u2019s hands were in his jacket pocket for the \u201centire time\u201d at recess.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe weapon in discussion was now in his jacket pocket,\u201d Kovac said she told Parker at the second meeting.<\/p>\n

When the investigator, Nina Farrish, pressed Parker about whether Zwerner expressed concerns about the student\u2019s behavior that day, Parker choked up.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, Ms. Zwerner never came to me saying she feared that the student had a weapon or that she felt unsafe. She didn\u2019t say that to me,\u201d Parker said, holding back tears.<\/p>\n

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Just before that, Parker said Zwerner did come to her that day saying the student \u201cis being extremely defiant today and she said, \u2018If he hits me, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do.’\u201d But the comments didn\u2019t prompt any further action from Parker, she said.<\/p>\n

Parker is facing eight counts of child neglect for each of the bullets that were in the 9mm handgun the child brought into school.<\/p>\n

Zwerner told the jury Tuesday that just three days earlier, the boy had chucked her cell phone on the floor, cracking the screen and he wasn\u2019t in school the next day.<\/p>\n

And another first-grade teacher, Jennifer West, told jurors a student, R.R., came to her after spending recess with the shooter, reporting to her he had a gun.<\/p>\n

West testified that after the fire rang out, Zwerner\u2019s students fled into West\u2019s classroom and West proceeded to go into lockdown as kids screamed and cried.<\/p>\n

During the lock-down, R.R. kept repeating to West, \u201cI tried to keep you safe. I told you,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

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The second day of trial Wednesday got off to a rocky start after both Parker\u2019s defense team and prosecutors called for a mistrial based on the fact that two jurors sent questions out to the court \u2014 which suggested they were already beginning to formulate opinions about the case despite the fact that deliberations hadn\u2019t begun.<\/p>\n

But Judge Rebecca Robinson denied the request, saying neither of the two jurors did anything that would have prejudiced Parker from getting a fair trial.<\/p>\n

Zwerner last year won a $10 million judgment against Parker at a civil trial where she testified she thought she \u201cdied\u201d and was going \u201cto heaven\u201d after the shooting that left fragments of the bullet in her body to this day.<\/p>\n

Parker has pleaded not guilty. The criminal trial is slated to wrap by the end of the week.<\/p>\n

The boy\u2019s mom, Deja Taylor, is serving nearly four years in prison for child neglect and gun charges after the boy found the gun in her purse at home.<\/p>\n

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