A first-grade teacher who cops say was deliberately shot in the chest by a six year-old boy is a 25 year-old heroine who screamed for her students to run to safety.
Abby Zwerner is the educator who was struck by the bullet in her classroom at Richneck Elemtary School in Newport News, Virginia, around 2pm Friday, DailyMail.com can reveal.
She was rushed to hospital for surgery after. Officials said earlier this evening that Zwerner was critically-injured, and no further updates have been shared.
Police said the boy, who has not been publicly identified, got into an ‘altercation’ with Zwerner, of Williamsburg, before shooting her.
Parent, Sebastian Gonzalez-Hernandez confirmed Zwerner’s identity to DailyMail.com and also detailed her selflessness in the immediate aftermath.
He said ‘she screamed at her kids to run away’ after the student fired a single bullet.
‘Even after she’d been shot she was thinking about the safety of her children,’ Gonzalez-Hernandez said.