The six-year-old pupil is now in police custody. (Representational)

Washington:

A six-year-old boy opened fireplace in an elementary faculty classroom within the japanese US state of Virginia on Friday, significantly injuring a instructor, police stated.

No college students had been harm within the incident at Richneck Elementary School.

“The individual is a six-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,” native police chief Steve Drew instructed a information convention, including that “this was not an accidental shooting.”

Police stated that the sufferer was a instructor in her 30s and her accidents had been believed to be life-threatening.

“I’m in shock, and I’m disheartened,” stated the town’s superintendent of faculties, George Parker.

“We need the community’s support to make sure that guns are not available to youth.”

School shootings plague the United States, with latest tragedies together with the killing final May of 19 kids and two academics in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old gunman.

There had been an estimated 44,000 gun-related deaths within the United States final yr, about half of them homicide instances, accidents and self-defense, and half of them suicides, based on the Gun Violence Archive database.

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