Jury Awards $10 Million to Abigail Zwerner, Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old Student NYT | Top Stories By: Michael Levenson 7 November 2025 at 02:33 The teacher, Abigail Zwerner, was shot in the hand and chest by a first grade student who brought his mother’s gun to class in 2023. © Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service, via Getty Images“I thought I was dying,” Abigail Zwerner testified during a civil trial against Ebony Parker, who was the school’s assistant principal. “I thought I had died. I thought I was either on my way to heaven, or in heaven.”