FILE - Students exit a school bus during the first day back to Richneck Elementary School on Jan. 30, 2023, in Newport News, Va. A grand jury in Virginia has indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher on charges of child neglect and failing to secure her handgun in the family's home, a prosecutor said Monday, April 10, 2023. (AP Photo/John C. Clark, File) (John C. Clark, Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
The mother of a 6-year-old student who shot his first-grade teacher in Virginia has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison.
Deja Taylor was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison for using marijuana while owning a firearm.
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Taylor’s son used her gun when he shot Abigail Zwerner, 26, in January at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, prosecutors said.
He fired a 9 mm handgun while Zwerner was sitting at the reading table in their first-grade classroom, officials said.
