UPI By Joe Fisher
March 8 (UPI) — Prosecutors in Virginia will not charge the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in January.
Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn told ABC News on Wednesday that it would be “problematic” to charge the child with a crime because he would not be competent to stand trial.
“I think it’s problematic to assume that a 6-year-old understands the criminal justice system enough to be competent to stand trial,” Gwynn told Hampton, Va., ABC affiliate WVEC.
The attorney did not rule out charging anyone else in the case. Days after the Jan. 6 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., the Newport News Police Department determined that the child used a gun belonging to his mother to shoot his teacher, 25-year-old Abigail Zwerner.
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