Abigail Zwerner.Photo: today
In an interview withTODAY, Abigail Zwerner, 25, gave on update on how she’s been progressing since the harrowing incident.
“I’ve been doing okay,” she told TODAY’sSavannah Guthrie. “It’s been challenging. I’ve gone through a lot of obstacles and challenges.”
On Jan. 6, Zwerner was in herfirst-grade classroomat Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., when one of her students shot her. She raised her hand and the bullet went through her hand and then struck her chest.
Shortly after the shooting, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said at apress conferencethat the young student was taken into custody and Drew described the shooting as intentional. Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn toldNBC Newsin early March that the 6-year-old would not face charges, saying that the “prospect that a 6-year-old can stand trial is problematic.”
“I remember him pointing the gun at me,” Zwerner said on TODAY. “I remember the look on his face. I remember the gun going off. I remember feeling something. It was a pretty scary day.”
“There’s some things that I’ll never forget. And I just will never forget the look on his face that he gave me while he pointed the gun directly at me,” she added. “That’s something that I will never forget. It’s changed me. It’s changed my life.”
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Zwerner’s attorney, Diane Toscano, told TODAY that she plans to file a lawsuit against the school.
“I can tell you there were failures on multiple levels in this case, and there were adults that were in positions of authority that could have prevented this tragedy from happening and did not,” Toscano said,TODAYreports.
source: people.com
