{"id":270435,"date":"2023-03-21T08:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=270435"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:47:55","slug":"recovering-teacher-shot-by-6-year-old-its-changed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=270435","title":{"rendered":"Recovering Teacher Shot by 6-year-old: \u2018It\u2019s Changed Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) \u2014 A Virginia teacher who was shot<\/a> and wounded by her 6-year-old student said it has changed her life and she has vivid memories and nightmares about that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just will never forget the look on his face that he gave me while he pointed the gun directly at me,\u201d first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner said during an exclusive interview with NBC\u2019s Savannah Guthrie about the student. \u201cIt’s changed me. It’s changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said she’s still in shock and can’t make sense of it, in a portion of the interview that was aired Tuesday morning on \u201cToday.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’m not sure when the shock will ever go away because of just how surreal it was and the vivid memories I have of that day. I think about it daily. Sometimes I have nightmares,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking publicly for the first time since the Jan. 6 shooting, Zwerner said in a portion of the interview that was aired Monday on \u201cNBC Nightly News” that she’s had a challenging recovery including four surgeries and has some days when she \u201ccan’t get up out of bed,” while others she is able to go about her day and make it to appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor going through what I’ve gone through, I try to stay positive. You know, try to have a positive outlook on what’s happened and where my future’s heading,\u201d Zwerner said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zwerner was hospitalized for nearly two weeks after being shot in the chest and left hand as she taught her class at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. The shooting rattled the military shipbuilding community and sent shock waves around the country, with many wondering how a child so young could get access to a gun<\/a> and shoot his teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) \u2014 A Virginia teacher who was shot and wounded by her 6-year-old student said it has changed her life and she has vivid memories and nightmares about that day. \u201cI just will never forget the look on his face that he gave me while he pointed the gun directly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":270436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270437,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270435\/revisions\/270437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}