In January of 2023 a 6-year-old boy pulled out a gun and shot his teacher in her classroom. The teacher was hit by a single bullet which passed through her hand and into her chest. She spent two weeks in the hospital and then additional time in rehab. To this day the bullet has never been removed because it is near her spine.
The boy was deemed to young to form criminal intent but his mother was charged and convicted of felony child neglect at the state level and for gun charges at the federal level.
For her part, Zwerner filed a $40 million lawsuit against the school district and the assistant principal, Ebony Parker, who she said did nothing to stop the boy even after multiple warnings he had brought a gun to school. This week the civil trial against the assistant principal began. At least four people have testified that Parker was warned the boy had a gun and repeatedly did nothing in response.
Testimony on Tuesday focused on how the two teachers, the guidance counselor and the reading specialist shared information with Parker about the threat throughout the day.
Amy Kovac, the reading specialist, was in Parker’s office when Zwerner told Parker the boy had threatened a kindergartner and had been aggressive with a security officer during lunch. Parker never looked up at Zwerner, who had to leave to return to class, Kovac testified.
Two girls in the hallway later told Kovac that the boy had a gun. Kovac went to Zwerner’s classroom after lunch and sat with him.
“The girls tell me you have a gun in the bag,” she said she told him. “I said, ‘Can I have the bag?’ And he said, ‘No, no one is getting that bag.’”
Kovac decided to wait to search the backpack and when she did it did not contain a gun. However…
Kovac got a text from Zwerner saying the boy took something from his bag and put it in his pocket.
That brought Kovac to Parker’s office again, she testified Tuesday. She said Parker rebuffed her. “She did say, well, he has little pockets,” Kovac testified. “And I said he put it in his jacket pocket, and I was kind of mad, you know, and I walked away.”…
Diane Toscano, one of the lawyers for Zwerner, told the jury that Parker had four opportunities to intervene when staff members told her of the threat. “She made bad decisions that day,” Toscano said.
Parker is facing 8-felony counts of child endangerment in a separate criminal case that hasn’t started yet. She could get up to five years for each count, one for each of the bullets in the gun that day.
So why didn’t Parker do more? Your guess is as good as mine because there is a complete lack of details about the reasons for her decisions that day. Her attorneys have argued in court this week that no one thought such a thing was possible and that’s why Parker didn’t react. But if you’re told 3 times that a kid has a gun, at some point you should probably begin to wonder if maybe it is possible.
My own take, and you definitely won’t find anyone at CNN or the NY Times talking about this, is that there is an underlying racial element to this case which is mostly being ignored. The child who shot Zwerner that day is black. Ebony Parker, the do-nothing assistant principal is also black.
This is “Parker” — as in Ebony Parker, the vice principal being sued with a history of overlooking students prone to violence. https://t.co/zmhpOEo9li pic.twitter.com/ed9lig4VBI
— StikeDCmonMan 🤨 (@StikeDC) October 27, 2025
Meanwhile, Abby Zwerner (the victim) and Amy Kovac, the two people who kept going into Parker’s office to warn her about the gun, are white.
I’d be willing to bet that Ebony Parker is someone who is professionally concerned about the “school to prison pipeline.” People who share this concern tend to be fixated on the need to “reduce criminalization.” In practice that means being more lenient with student misbehavior and avoiding creating a record of bad behavior that could lead to police involvement down the line. From this perspective, the best thing to do when students, particularly minority students, are creating disruptions is to adopt restorative justice practices and, at all costs, avoid calling the police.
A kid bringing a handgun to school is a legitimate reason for calling the police. Why didn’t Parker do that? The fact that she did nothing is suggestive of the mindset that may have been motivating her actions that day.
Zwerner is expected to testify today or tomorrow.
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