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A Virginia elementary teacher says she is haunted by the look on the face of the 6-year-old student who shot her with his mom’s gun in January and still has a bullet lodged in her chest from the “shocking” incident.
Abigail Zwerner, 25, spoke for the first time about sustaining serious injuries at the hands of one of her first-grade students in a Tuesday interview with Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s “Today.”
“I remember him pointing the gun at me, I remember the look on his face, I remember the gun going off,” she recalled of the moment the child fired the weapon at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on Jan. 6.
“There’s some things that I’ll never forget. And I just will never forget the look on his face that he gave me while he pointed the gun directly at me,” she added. “That’s something that I will never forget. It’s changed me. It’s changed my life.”
Zwerner said she believed she only survived because the bullet went through her hand before penetrating her chest and collapsing her lung.
Part of the bullet, she said, remains in her chest.
“I think it will always be there,” Zwerner said emotionally.
“At first it really shook me up … seeing an open wound on your body and remembering how you got it is pretty traumatizing,” she continued, as she recalled thinking she “had died” after escorting the rest of her students to safety.
