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Zwerner is the first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School who police say was shot by a 6-year-old student in her classroom.

Tonight the school board in new port, virginia, fired its superintendent in a 5-1 vote. it's the latest fallout from the shooting of an elementary schoolteacher by a 6-year-old. an assistant principal also resigned today as the teacher plans legal action and the attorney says the school had ample warning the boy had a gun. brian todd has more. >> this should have never happened. it was preventable. and thank god abby is alive. >> the attorney for abby zwerner, the teacher shot and wounded by a 6-year-old student in her class says she will file a lawsuit. >> had the school administrators acted ...

Amid criticism and uproar over by parents and teachers, the school board voted to relieve the district superintendent of his duties next month.

>> reporter: his response to the allegations? >> i told my wife, after we saw it, i'll leave the expletives out, but i condition believe someone could be so blase or callous with the safety. what is their job? >> reporter: james, the attorney for the family of the alleged shooter responded to the allegations from abby zerner's attorney and to the planned lawsuit with an email to cnn saying that the family is continuing to pray for abby's zerner. that attorney had told us that the gun had been secured with a trigger lock in the family home an been kept on the top shelf of the mother's bedroom c...

The Virginia elementary school teacher who was shot by a student in classroom earlier this month is suing her school district.