Last Updated on: 8th January 2023, 04:36 am
Who is Kayla Rolland? Biography, Wiki
Kayla Rolland shot and wounded a teacher at her Virginia school during an altercation in a first-grade classroom on Friday, police and school officials told Newport News.
Experts say a school shooting involving a 6-year-old is rare but not uncommon, while Virginia law limits how a child of that age can be punished for such a crime. No students were injured in the shooting at Richneck Elementary School, police said.
The teacher, a woman in her 30s, suffered life-threatening injuries. His condition improved somewhat by late afternoon, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said.
“We’ve never had a situation where anyone was running around in the school shooting,” Drew told reporters, later adding that the shooting wasn’t an accident.
Rolland Shot Abby Zwerner
Police Chief Steve Drew said the student and teacher met in a classroom.
He said the boy had a gun in the classroom and investigators are trying to figure out where he got it. The police chief gave no further details about the shooting, the altercation, or what happened at the school.
Joselin Glover, whose son is in the fourth grade, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper that she received a text message from the school saying one person had been shot and another was in custody.
“My heart stopped,” he said in a classroom.
“Most of the whole class was crying,” Carlos told the newspaper. Parents and students gathered outside a gym, the Newport News Public Schools said via Facebook.
The police chief did not say if authorities had been in contact with the waiter’s parents, but said members of the police department were investigating.
“We have been in contact with our Commonwealth Solicitor (local prosecutor) and others to help us provide the best possible service to this young man,” Drew said.
Newport News is a city of about 185,000 in southeast Virginia known for its shipyard, which builds the country’s aircraft carriers and other ships for the United States Navy. Richneck has about 550 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the Virginia Department of Education website.
School officials have already said there will be no school on Monday.
“Today our students received a lesson in gun violence,” said Newport News Schools Superintendent George Parker III, “and what guns can do to disrupt not just an educational setting, but a family, a community.”
Virginia law does not allow 6-year-olds to be tried as adults.
