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Troubling new developments tonight in the case of a virginia teacher shot in her own classroom. allegedly by a 6-year-old student. the school district acknowledging at least one official was warned that the child might have a gun. the cnn's brian todd has been all over this story for us. brian, what else are you learning? >> we're told that the warning came the same day of the shooting, hours before the shooting occurred we have new information after the warning. disturbing new information tonight indicating there may have been a window of time to prevent first grade teacher abby zerner from b...

Abby zerner as she came into the office bleeding. here is what she had to say to us. >> the teacher that was shot, she came into the office saying that she had been shot. she had blood on her hand and blood on her shirt. and she said that she had been shot. my first instinct, being a mom and a grand mom, was to run down the hallway. and that was my first instinct. and i was about to go down the hallway. >> reporter: but she stayed in the office and helped administer first aid to abby zerner when she was bleeding and la wanda told us that abby zerner came in bleeding saying call 911 and she pas...

Possibility that the mother of this child could face charges in this case. we have asked the police chief repeatedly about why the mother has not been charged and the mother did legally purchase that gun, a 9 millimeter taurus handgun and they can't make that determination until they speak with child protective services, and investigators and until he speaks to the commonwealth attorney to make the determination as to whether the mother could be charged but telling cnn this morning that there is a certain possibility that she could be charged. a lot of other burning questions. how did the chil...

He did not really answer that and was not able to answer that at the time. i think some of this is still being determined in the investigation. the chief is talking about heros in this case and we do have a number of them to talk about. he was really praising that teacher abby zerner for getting all of the kids out of the classroom. she was the last one to leave the classroom and one other teacher went in and restrained the child until the police got there and became combative and struck that school employee but they were able to retrain the child and that person is a hero as well. >> just tra...

Police say that abby zerner was the last person to leave the classroom before she made her way to the office to seek help. there is another school employee being hailed as a hero. not talked about too much but this school employee rushed into the classroom as the children were rushed out and restrained the child who had committed the shooting until police got there. and the police told us that the child became combative and struck that school employee. but the employee was able to restrain the child until the police got there. police got there very quickly. but that person is a hero as well th...