A grand jury in Virginia has indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher.
Prosecutor Howard Gwynn said in a news release that a grand jury sitting in Newport News on Monday charged the boy’s mother, 25-year-old Deja Taylor, with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of endangering a child by reckless storage of a firearm.
The Associated Press isn’t naming the mother to shield the identity of her son. The boy shot his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner, on Jan. 6 inside her classroom at Richneck Elementary School.
Police say the boy’s mother legally purchased the gun. Her attorney has said the gun was secured on a top shelf in her closet and had a trigger lock.
