NEWPORT NEWS, VA (AP) — A former assistant principal at an elementary school in Virginia is due in court for trial, accused of ignoring warnings that a 6-year-old student brought a loaded gun to school that was later used to shoot his first-grade teacher, Ruckersville native and James Madison graduate Abby Zwerner.
Ebony Parker’s criminal trial is set to start Monday in Newport News.
Parker is charged with eight counts of felony child neglect, one for each of the eight bullets in the gun that was brought into the classroom of Richneck Elementary schoolteacher Zwerner in January 2023, prosecutors have said. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison upon conviction…