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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: A former assistant principal at an elementary school in Virginia,

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Speaker 1: reportedly disregarded several warnings regarding a six year old student

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Speaker 1: who had a gun before the child shot his teacher,

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Speaker 1: according to the attorney representing the teacher in a forty

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Speaker 1: million dollar lawsuit that started on Tuesday. Abby's Warner, a

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Speaker 1: first grade teacher at Richnik Elementary School in Newport News,

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Speaker 1: was shot in both the hand and chest in January

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Speaker 1: twenty three while seated at a reading table in her classroom.

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Speaker 1: She spent almost two weeks in the hospital, underwent six

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Speaker 1: surgical procedures, and has not regained full use of her

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Speaker 1: left hand, with a bullet still lodged in her chest.

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Speaker 1: She recently spoke to thirteen News about her experience.

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Speaker 2: I was in my career that I went to college

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Speaker 2: for that I worked hard to get and I loved it,

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Speaker 2: and I thought never crossed my mind that I was

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Speaker 2: going to be shot by a six year old in

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Speaker 2: my classroom. And it's just I feel like it's just

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Speaker 2: been taken from me. It's been stripped of me.

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Speaker 1: The lawsuit claims that Ebony. Parker, the former school administrator,

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Speaker 1: failed to take action despite being approached by four people

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Speaker 1: who expressed concerns about the student bringing a gun to school.

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Speaker 1: In her opening remarks, as Warner's attorney stated that Parker

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Speaker 1: made quote poor decisions and choices that day. The attorney

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Speaker 1: emphasized that Parker had the authority to search the student,

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Speaker 1: remove him from the classroom, and contact law enforcement, but

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Speaker 1: chose not to do so. The incident unfolded on the

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Speaker 1: first day after the student returned from a suspicion for

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Speaker 1: an earlier incident where he had slammed his Warner's phone.

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Speaker 1: The shooting caused widespread shock within the military shipbuilding community

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Speaker 1: and as the nation, raising questions about how a child

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Speaker 1: so young could access a gun and then use it

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Speaker 1: against a teacher. No one could have anticipated a six

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Speaker 1: year old first grader bringing a firearm to school. Parker's attorney,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Hogan, told the jurors, you will need to determine

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Speaker 1: if this is something that could have been foreseen. This

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Speaker 1: is the crux of the case. Hogan noted that decision

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Speaker 1: making in a public school environment is typically cooperative and collaborative.

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Speaker 1: He also cautioned against hindsight bias, and the tendency to

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Speaker 1: judge past decisions with knowledge gained later. The law recognizes

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Speaker 1: that it is inherently unjust to evaluate someone's decisions based

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Speaker 1: on information that emerges after the fact, he said. The

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Speaker 1: law mandates that you assess people's choices at the moment

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Speaker 1: the choices were made. Parker is the sole defendant in

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Speaker 1: the lawsuit, as a judge had previously dismissed the district's

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Speaker 1: super intendent and the school's principal from the case. She

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Speaker 1: has also set to face a separate criminal trial next

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Speaker 1: month on eight charges of felony child neglect, one for

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Speaker 1: each of the eight bullets that posed a threat to

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Speaker 1: all of the students in the classroom that day. Experts

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Speaker 1: indicate that criminal charges against school officials following a shooting

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Speaker 1: incident are quite uncommon. Each charge carries a potential sentence

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Speaker 1: of up to five years in prison if convicted. Additionally,

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Speaker 1: the student's mother has received a nearly four year prison

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Speaker 1: sentence for felony child neglect and federal weapons charges. More

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this and now a heartbreaking

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Speaker 1: case out of Texas, A family has been shot to

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Speaker 1: death on their front porch in what police believed to

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Speaker 1: be a double murder suicide in a rural Texas town.

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Speaker 1: Police say a man identified as Salvador Ramirez fifty two,

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Speaker 1: report made several distressing phone calls to relatives on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: hours before the disturbing discovery of the family's bodies. Family

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Speaker 1: members went to check on Ramirez at his home after

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Speaker 1: not being able to contact him for several hours. Ramirez

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Speaker 1: was found dead along with his wife, Maria Ramirez, and

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Speaker 1: the couple's three year old son. A Montgomery County Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: office spokesperson said the phone calls made by the man

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Speaker 1: revealed a possible motive for the crime, but would not

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Speaker 1: reveal more information. A gun was recovered at the scene,

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Speaker 1: and the sheriff said the investigation is ongoing. Neighbors said

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Speaker 1: they were shocked as the family seemed happy and loving

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Speaker 1: and very nice in the community. Police say the situation

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Speaker 1: is evolving more investigations continue. For now, the family is

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Speaker 1: mourning the loss of an entire family and in Fort Pierce, Florida,

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Speaker 1: police are actively searching for a missing fourteen year old

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Speaker 1: girl that authorities believe is in the company of a

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Speaker 1: twenty year old man with active warrants. The Fort Pierce

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Speaker 1: Police Department announced on Wednesday that officers are searching for

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Speaker 1: Sophia McGriff. She's just fourteen. Police described her as a

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Speaker 1: mixed race female. She was last seen on October twenty

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Speaker 1: eight leaving Garden Avenue in Fort Pierce. Authorities believe she

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Speaker 1: is in danger and they are working diligently to locate her.

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Speaker 1: Sophia is reportedly in the company of Namiyah Childers, a

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Speaker 1: twenty year old man who currently has active warrants for

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Speaker 1: lud computer solicitation of a child and traveling to meet

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Speaker 1: a minor for unlawful sexual activity. Sophia herself has two

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Speaker 1: outstanding warrants for failure to appear Police surginy one. With

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Speaker 1: information about Sophia's whereabouts to contact the Fort Pierce Police

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Speaker 1: Department immediately at seven seven two nine seven nine one

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