• The Virginia teacher shot by a 6-year-old student filed a $40 million lawsuit on Monday, accusing school officials of repeatedly ignoring warnings that the disturbed youngster had a gun.
• Abigail Zwerner, 25, filed the suit nearly three months after she was shot while teaching at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News by a first grader with “a history of random violence” according to the lawsuit.
• That history included “multiple reports that a firearm was on school property and likely in possession of a violent individual,” the suit said about the troubled youngster who was suspended for smashing Zwerner’s phone two days before the shooting.

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