Yesterday I wrote about the grand jury report which was released in connection with the 2023 shooting of Abby Zwerner, a first grade teacher in Newport News, VA who was shot by one of her 6-year-old students.
There’s another aspect of this story that I didn’t delve into yesterday but I looked into it further today. After the shooting, police searched the school for a disciplinary file belonging to the 6-year-old shooter. There should have been two copies of this file in the school but both had disappeared.
There were believed to be two physical files in the school for the child: one located in the main office and one located in Ms. Zwerner’s classroom. When law enforcement executed the search warrant to obtain those files they were not found. Every other student file was in both locations. The child’s file was the only file that was in neither location.
Law enforcement asked the…
