A judge has dismissed charges against a former assistant principal of a Virginia elementary school who was accused of disregarding reports that a 6-year-old student had a gun at school — a gun that was later used to shoot his teacher.
Ebony Parker went on trial this week, charged with eight counts of felony child neglect in connection to the January 2023 shooting of first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner in Newport News, Virginia. Each count represented one of the bullets in the loaded gun a child brought to the school.
On Thursday, the trial judge granted a defense motion to dismiss the case, saying some of the issues debated in the trial were “legal theories.”…