Newport News police officers and sheriff’s deputies rushed to Richneck Elementary School after a 6-year-old student shot his teacher on Jan. 6, 2023. Abby Zwerner and 16 students had fled Classroom 11. The teacher collapsed in the school office. The boy, identified in court only as J.T., was still in the first-grade classroom. Reading specialist Amy Kovac was holding him. Body camera footage from Officer Brian Torrez, obtained by The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, shows the boy cursing at Kovac and the officers as police entered a classroom adorned with the alphabet and colorful decorations. Court documents say the boy removed the gun from a jacket pocket during an afternoon reading class and shot a single round at Zwerner from about 10 feet away. The bullet struck the teacher’s hand and chest. The prosecution introduced the body cam footage — nearly three minutes long — as its first exhibit in the May trial of former Richneck assistant principal Ebony Parker. Circuit Court Judge Rebecca M. Robinson admitted it into evidence. She allowed it to be played for the jury that was considering eight felony child neglect counts against Parker tied to events before the shooting. The boy, now 9 or 10, is in the custody of his great-grandfather in Newport News. The child’s mother, Deja Nicole Taylor, 29, served time in state prison for child neglect and time in federal prison in part for lying on a background-check form when she bought the gun. She was released from prison in February.