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“I thought I had died. I thought I was either on my way to heaven or in heaven,” Abby Zwerner testified Thursday. "But then it all got black. And so, I then thought I wasn’t going there."
Abby Zwerner's $40 million lawsuit accuses a former assistant principal of the Virginia elementary school she taught at of ignoring multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun.
Former Richneck Elementary School assistant principal Ebony Parker is accused of ignoring multiple reports that a 6-year-old had a gun.
Deja Taylor, whose son critically wounded his teacher, was also separately sentenced last month to 21 months in prison for marijuana use while owning a gun.
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Deja Taylor, 26, still faces a separate sentencing in December on the state level for felony child neglect.
An attorney for Abby Zwerner, who sued the school district for $40 million, said she didn't resign but was fired.
Deja Taylor faces two charges, including a count of felony child neglect.
"It’s changed me. It’s changed my life," first grade teacher Abigail Zwerner told the "Today" show.
Richneck Elementary School in Newport News reopened Monday with stepped-up security and a new administrator.
The school's district superintendent was ousted from his post after the revelations about the warnings came to light.