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Peter Dujardin has been a reporter at the Daily Press for more than 20 years. He has mostly covered courts and criminal justice issues for the past 14 years. That includes policing issues, and criminal and civil cases in both state and federal courts.
Deja Nicole Taylor — charged with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of recklessly leaving a firearm so as to endanger a child — will work “collaboratively” with prosecutors as the case proceeds, her attorney vowed.
Probe will focus on whether any “acts and omissions” by the Newport News Public Schools led to a 6-year-old boy shooting his first grade teacher in a classroom three months ago.
The mother, whose son shot 25-year-old teacher Abby Zwerner during class on Jan. 6, was charged with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of allowing her child to access her unsecured firearm.
Talbot, who has led the Hampton Police Division for less than two years, was serving as one of four members of Norfolk’s search committee when Norfolk City Manager Chip Filer offered him the job leading the Norfolk Police Department.
Abigail Zwerner, 25, of York County, contends the first grader’s past behavior should have led to better safety protections for everyone. Instead, the complaint said, Richneck’s assistant principal ignored several stark warnings that the boy had a gun on him.
The gun owner was “clearing his weapon to enter” the event when he “accidentally discharged the gun into the floor,” Hampton Police Cpl. Ernest Williams said. It happened at 12:42 p.m. in a convention center hallway that leads into the show.
A Circuit Court judge ordered the father of a missing Hampton boy sent to Eastern State Hospital to attempt to restore his mental competency to stand trial.