Shocking Bodycam Footage Shows Six-Year-Old Newport News Psycho
No wonder they tried to keep this police bodycam footage under wraps for three years.
It took legal action from The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press to get the 3-minute footage released. What it shows is a foul-mouthed 6-year-old psycho who’d just shot his first grade teacher in the chest.
The Pilot offers this account:
The boy, identified in court only as J.T., was still in the first-grade classroom. Reading specialist Amy Kovac was holding him.
Body camera footage from Officer Brian Torrez, obtained by The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, shows the boy cursing at Kovac and the officers as police entered a classroom adorned with the alphabet and colorful decorations.
The gun is there,” Kovac tells the officers. “He just admitted that he had one … he had one bullet.” (In fact, there were seven more rounds in the jammed handgun at the time).
“I got a weapon,” a sheriff’s deputy says, finding the firearm on the floor 15 to 20 feet from the boy.
“Both y’all want a f—ing piece of me, b—?!” the boy tells the officers.
“Stop!” Kovac says as she holds him from behind in a bear hug.
“F— you, b—,” he says.
“Leave the gun there,” Torrez says of the 9 mm Taurus handgun. The deputy stands guard next to it.
“We have the shooter,” another officer says on the police radio.
“I told the (assistant principal) that there was a threat earlier about it,” Kovac tells the officers.
“That (racial slur) retired last year,” the boy says, though it’s not clear to whom he was referring.
“How old is he?” an officer asks.
“He is 6 years old,” Kovac says. “He has been on a modified schedule. His mother is to pick him up at 2:30. This is his first week without his mother coming to school with him.”
Torrez puts on plastic gloves as he gets on the radio.
“1346, myself, and 2347 — and a sheriff’s deputy — are inside Room 11 with the suspect,” the officer says, referring to officers’ badge numbers. “Gun is secure.”
The 6-year-old says something unintelligible, then says, “F— you, b—,” while flashing a middle finger at Kovac
“We have some small handcuffs?” a police officer asks. Another officer who enters the room asks about the gun and is told it’s on the floor.
“Do you want me to stay?” Kovac asks.
“You can stay for now,” Torrez tells her. “If you feel comfortable … Um, is he OK?”
“He’s fine,” Kovac says. Then she faces the boy and asks: “You fine? Turn around.
When you shot the gun, did anything hurt you?”
“No,” the boy says.
“Let me see your hands,” Kovac says, inspecting them.
“Where is the weapon?” another officer asks.
“It’s on the floor,” Kovac says.
“It’s over there, whore,” the boy adds.
“Stop,” Kovac says. “That’s not how we speak to each other.”
“F— you,” he says as she begins to speak. “F— you. F— you, b—.”
“I mean, he does have the gun residue, looks like,” Kovac says, pointing to a white powdery substance on the boy’s hand.
“OK, let’s just not touch his hands or anything, OK?” Torrez says. Another officer asks the boy’s age, and Kovac again says he is 6.
“My mom had that,” the boy says, gesturing toward the handgun. “I stole that from my mom.”
We don’t know the shooter’s name because the courts shield the identity of juvenile offenders.
We’ll know his name eventually. When he gets arrested for murder - or worse - as an adult.
Seriously, does anyone think this budding thug has a bright future?
In case you’ve forgotten, this pint-sized would-be murderer took his mother’s 9 mm gun to school where he showed it to classmates who reported that he had a gun, but administrators never bothered to see if that was true.
Eventually, he shot his teacher, Abby Zwerner, in the hand and chest, leaving her gravely wounded. After multiple surgeries she still has a bullet lodged in her body and suffers from PTSD.
The bleeding teacher managed to get her other stunned students out of the classroom before 911 was called and she was hospitalized.
The thug’s mother, Deja Taylor, was sentenced to almost four years in prison on combination state child neglect and federal gun charges. She was released last spring.
Zwerner won a $10 million civil lawsuit against Richneck assistant principal, Ebony Parker, which is being appealed.
Listen to the appalling antisocial garbage pouring out of this first-grader’s mouth. Where do you think he learned to talk like that? Where did he learn to shoot a gun?
Who turned a little boy into some kind of gang-banging wannabe machine?
And why were innocent first graders forced to share a classroom with a boy whose behavior problems were so severe that his mother had to accompany him to school? This wasn’t fair to the normal kids.
Each child who witnessed this shooting should have a million-dollar civil case against the school district for failing to protect them from seeing such carnage.
News reports say the now 9-year-old shooter is living with his great-grandfather and thriving.
Color me skeptical.
