A jury awarded Abby Zwerner $10 million in a case she brought against her school’s assistant principal after being shot by a six-year-old student on January 6, 2023.
Breitbart News reported on the six-year-old boy shooting Zwerner, noting that the mother of the child was subsequently charged and found guilty of making false statements during the purchase of a firearm.
ABC News noted that Zwerner filed suit, claiming that the assistant principal, Ebony Parker, “failed to act after being informed multiple times that her student had a firearm on the day of the incident and did not let staff search him prior to the shooting.”
Both Zwerner and Parker resigned in the aftermath of the shooting.
On Thursday the jury awarded Zwerner a $10 million settlement with interest accrued since June 1, 2024.
One of Zwerner’s attorneys spoke to the press outside the courtroom, saying, “I remember just three years ago, almost to this day, hearing for the first time Abby’s story and thinking that this could have been prevented…So now to hear from a jury of her peers that they agree that this tragedy could have been prevented.”
Zwerner, who still has a bullet lodged in her chest, was seeking $40 million.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on X: @awrhawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
