Why foul-mouthed boy, 6, who shot Va. teacher, and yelled fk you bitch, didnt face charges

The 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot his teacher in the chest before launching into a vicious, caught-on-camera tirade against another educator – yelling “f–k you, b—h” – did not face any criminal charges related to the twisted attack. Instead, the boy – only identified by officials as J.T.– was ordered to spend 227 days undergoing inpatient psychiatric confinement for shooting his teacher, Abby Zwerner, in front of 16 students in their first grade class on Jan.

6, 2023, according to court records. Harrowing police bodycam footage released this week shows the baby-faced gunman swearing a blue streak and threatening cops just moments after he opened fire inside of the classroom in Newport News, a small city about 70 miles southwest of Richmond. “Both y’all want a f–king piece of me, b—h?!” J.T.yells at officers, while a Richneck Elementary School reading specialist, Amy Kovac, is seen restraining him in a bear hug and repeatedly pleading with him to “stop.” “F–k you, b—h,” the tiny perp responds, according to the video, which also shows cops discovering a 9 mm Taurus handgun nearby on the ground. “I stole that from my mom,” J.T.

says, gesturing to the firearm, which he admittedly stole from his mother’s purse earlier that morning. While speaking with officers, Kovac hints at earlier disciplinary issues with the boy.“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,” she’s heard saying in the clip. J.T.’s mother, Deja Nicole Taylor, eventually spent almost two years behind bars after pleading guilty to state felony child neglect and federal gun charges, which partly stemmed from her lying about using marijuana on a background-check form when she bought the firearm used in the shooting.Throughout those legal proceedings, details of J.T.’s troubled past poured out in court. On two separate occasions when he was just...