2026年5月20日 美国东部时间7:53 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
弗吉尼亚州一所小学2023年发生6岁学生枪击教师事件，一名检察官周二在法庭上表示，该校助理校长在接到同事多次举报学生携带枪支的情况下，“未采取任何行动”。
2023年1月纽波特纽斯市里奇内克小学枪击案发生前，学校员工曾告诉埃博尼·帕克，他们认为学生背包里藏有枪支，但帕克驳回了他们的担忧，特别检察官乔希·詹金斯表示。帕克目前因在这起事件中的行为面临八项重罪忽视儿童的指控，该事件造成一年级教师艾比·兹沃纳受伤。
在庭审开场陈述中，詹金斯称帕克告知举报的员工，学生的母亲很快就会来接他放学。
“她有没有说‘搜查这名学生’？没有，”詹金斯对陪审团说。“她有没有说‘报警’，或是真的报了警？没有。她有没有把这名学生带离教室并隔离？没有。
“她甚至都没从办公桌前站起来，也没离开过办公室。一次又一次的警告，她什么都没做。”
但帕克的律师柯蒂斯·罗杰斯表示，如果教师们认为现场有枪，本应采取行动，称他们至少应该将该学生与教室内其他约19名学生隔离开来。
“当时并没有人这么做，”罗杰斯说。“这些在场的每个人都有权将其他学生转移开。”
埃博尼·帕克（右）2026年5月18日周一在弗吉尼亚州纽波特纽斯巡回法院就其重罪忽视儿童指控的审判进行预审动议时，与律师柯蒂斯·M·罗杰斯交谈。彼得·凯西/《弗吉尼亚人报》 via 美联社 pooled photo
罗杰斯表示，检方必须证明帕克的行为表现出对他人生命的漠视。相反，罗杰斯将矛头指向了兹沃纳和其他在枪击发生前很久就曾观察到该学生行为的人。
“那些直接接触过这名学生的其他人呢？”罗杰斯说。
詹金斯表示，当时的学校政策要求将危机情况报告给管理员，由管理员采取行动。一名学校辅导员甚至请求搜查这名学生，但帕克拒绝了这一请求，因为根据规定，只有管理员或保安才能进行搜查。该校保安当时正在另一所学校执勤。
詹金斯说，当时只有帕克和校长有权采取行动，但校长对此一无所知，因为帕克并未将此事告知她。
“当天学校里只有一个人既有采取行动的权力，又知晓这场持续的危机，你们会看到，这个人就是帕克博士，”詹金斯说。
兹沃纳是庭审首位传唤作证的证人。她表示，这名学生几天前曾将她的手机摔在地上，枪击当天情绪“暴躁易怒”。
课间休息时，这名学生一直穿着一件 oversized 的夹克，双手插在口袋里。兹沃纳将这一情况发短信告知了一名阅读专家，此前有学生向该专家举报了枪支隐患，该专家已就此向帕克报案。
课间休息结束后，这名学生在教室里仍穿着那件夹克，兹沃纳就是在阅读桌旁遭枪击的。兹沃纳住院近两周，接受了六次手术，左手已无法完全正常活动。一颗子弹险些击中她的心脏，目前仍留在她的胸腔内。
检方表示，帕克面临的八项指控分别对应带入教室的枪支中射出的每一颗子弹。每项罪名定罪后最高可判处五年监禁。
专家表示，校园枪击事件后对学校管理人员提起刑事指控的情况极为罕见。这起枪击案在这个以造船业为主的军事社区乃至整个美国都引发了震动，许多人都在追问，一名如此年幼的孩子如何能够获取枪支并枪击自己的老师。
去年11月的民事审判中，陪审团裁定兹沃纳获得1000万美元赔偿，帕克是该案唯一被告，目前她已不在该校任职。
该学生的母亲因重罪忽视儿童和联邦武器指控被判处近四年监禁。
Assistant principal “did nothing” when told about 6-year-old with gun, prosecutor says
May 20, 2026 7:53 AM EDT / CBS/AP
The assistant principal of a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old student shot his teacher in 2023 “did nothing” about the fact he had a gun, despite receiving repeated warnings from colleagues, a prosecutor said in court Tuesday.
Before the January 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, school employees told Ebony Parker they believed the student had a gun in his backpack, but she dismissed their concerns, said special prosecutor Josh Jenkins. Parker is now facing eight counts of felony child neglect for her role in the incident, which wounded first grade teacher Abby Zwerner.
During the trial’s opening statements, Jenkins said Parker told the employees who approached her about the child’s gun that his mother would be arriving soon to pick him up for the day.
“Does she say ‘search the child’? No,” Jenkins told the jury. “Does she say ‘call the police,’ or does she call the police? No. Does she remove the child from the classroom and separate him? No.
“She didn’t even get up from her desk. She didn’t leave her office. Warning after warning after warning, she did nothing.”
But Parker’s attorney, Curtis Rogers, said teachers should have done something if they believed a gun was present, saying they should have at least separated the child from about 19 other students in the classroom.
“That did not occur,” Rogers said. “Each one of those individuals had the authority to move those classmates.”
Ebony Parker, right, speaks with her attorney, Curtis M. Rogers, during pretrial motions for her trial on felony child neglect charges at the Newport News Circuit Court in Newport News, Va., Monday, May 18, 2026. Peter Casey/The Virginian-Pilot via AP, Pool
Rogers said the prosecution must prove Parker’s actions showed a reckless disregard for human life. Instead, Rogers placed the blame on Zwerner and others who had witnessed the child’s movements long before the shooting.
“What about these other people who had direct contact with this child?” Rogers said.
School policy at the time required crisis situations to be reported to an administrator who is required to take action, Jenkins said. A school counselor even asked for permission to search the child but Parker denied the request because searches could only be conducted by an administrator or a security officer. The school’s security officer was away at another school at the time.
That left Parker and the school’s principal with the authority to act, but the principal knew nothing about the threat because Parker did not tell her about it, Jenkins said.
“There was only one person in the school that day that had both the authority to act and the knowledge of the ongoing crisis, and that person, you will see, was Dr. Parker,” Jenkins said.
Zwerner was the first witness called to testify in the trial. She said the student had slammed her phone to the ground a few days earlier and was in a “violent” mood the day of the shooting.
During recess on the school playground, the student wore an oversized jacket with both of his hands in his pockets the entire time. Zwerner said she sent a text message with that observation to a reading specialist who had been tipped off earlier by students about the gun and reported it to Parker.
After recess, the student continued to wear the jacket in the classroom, where Zwerner was shot at a reading table. Zwerner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, required six surgeries and does not have the full use of her left hand. A bullet narrowly missed her heart and remains in her chest.
The eight counts Parker faces include one for each of the bullets in the gun brought into the classroom, prosecutors have said. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison upon conviction.
Criminal charges against school officials after a school shooting are quite rare, experts say. The shooting sent shock waves through this military shipbuilding community and the country at large, with many wondering how a child so young could gain access to a gun and shoot his teacher.
A jury awarded $10 million to Zwerner in a civil trial last November in which Parker, who no longer works at the school, was the only defendant.
The student’s mother was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for felony child neglect and federal weapons charges.