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Six-year-old boy held after shooting teacher in US

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Agence France-Presse

<p>WASHINGTON, United States — A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said.</p><p>No students were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newport News.</p><p>&quot;The individual is a six-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,&quot; local police chief Steve Drew told a news conference, adding that &quot;this was not an accidental shooting.&quot;</p><p>Police said that the victim was a teacher in her 30s and her injuries were believed to be life-threatening.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m in shock, and I&#x27;m disheartened,&quot; said the city&#x27;s superintendent of schools, George Parker.</p><p>&quot;We need the community’s support to make sure that guns are not available to youth.&quot; </p><p>School shootings plague the United States, with recent tragedies including the killing last May of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old gunman.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/05/25/22/multiple-fatalities-in-texas-elementary-school-shooting">Multiple fatalities in Texas elementary school shooting</a></li></ul><p>There were an estimated 44,000 gun-related deaths in the United States last year, about half of them murder cases, accidents and self-defense, and half of them suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive database.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2407492" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Police said that the victim was a teacher in her 30s and her injuries were believed to be life-threatening.