Students and police collect exterior of Richneck Elementary School after a capturing on Friday, Jan. 6, in Newport News, Va. A capturing at a Virginia elementary college despatched a trainer to the hospital and ended with “an individual” in custody Friday, police and college officers within the metropolis of Newport News stated.

Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot through AP

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Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot through AP

Students and police collect exterior of Richneck Elementary School after a capturing on Friday, Jan. 6, in Newport News, Va. A capturing at a Virginia elementary college despatched a trainer to the hospital and ended with “an individual” in custody Friday, police and college officers within the metropolis of Newport News stated.

Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot through AP

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A 6-year-old scholar shot and wounded a Virginia trainer Friday throughout an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and college officers within the metropolis of Newport News stated.

No college students have been injured within the capturing at Richneck Elementary School, police stated. The trainer — a lady in her 30s — suffered life-threatening accidents. Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew informed reporters that her situation had improved considerably by late afternoon.

Police stated the kid had a handgun within the classroom and that they took that scholar into custody.

“We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting,” Drew informed reporters. “We have a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.”

He added that the capturing was not an accident.

Parents and college students have been reunited at a gymnasium door, Newport News Public Schools stated on Facebook.

Newport News is a metropolis of about 185,000 folks in southeastern Virginia recognized for its shipyard, which builds the nation’s plane carriers and different U.S. Navy vessels.

Richneck has about 550 college students who’re in kindergarten by means of fifth grade, based on the Virginia Department of Education’s web site. School officers have already stated that there can be no courses on the college on Monday.