A jury awarded Abby Zwirner $10 million in a case she brought against her school’s assistant principal after a six-year-old student shot him on January 6, 2023.
Breitbart News reported that the six-year-old boy shot Zwirner, noting that the child’s mother was later charged and convicted of making false statements while purchasing a firearm.
ABC News male That Zwirner filed suit, alleging that the assistant principal, Ebony Parker, “failed to act after being informed multiple times that her student had a firearm on the day of the incident and did not allow staff to search it before shooting.”
Both Zwirner and Parker resigned in the wake of the shooting.
A jury on Thursday awarded Zwirner a $10 million settlement with interest accrued since June 1, 2024.
One of Zwirner’s attorneys spoke to the press outside the courtroom, saying, “I remember that just three years ago, almost to this day, I first heard Abby’s story and thought this could have been prevented…and now I hear from a jury of her peers that they agree this tragedy could have been prevented.”
Zwirner, who still had a bullet lodged in her chest, was seeking $40 million.
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