Richmond, Va. (NewsradioWRVA.com) - Attorney Pamela Branch says her client, former Richneck Elementary School principal Briana Foster-Newton, was not one of the administrators at the school who was informed of the plans for a six-year-old boy to bring a gun to school on January 6. That was the same day that first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner was seriously injured in a shooting by the six-year-old.
About a week after the shooting, news broke that "administrators" at the school were made aware of plans by the boy to bring the gun. A search that morning ended up with nothing. Branch says it was widely assumed that Foster-Newton was one of those administrators. She says that Newton-Foster, since the January 6 tragedy, has received threatening voicemails and has been the subject of inaccurate social media posts.
Branch says that Foster-Newton is wishing the new administration well at Richneck Elementary and Branch adds that Foster-Newton is in the process of being re-assigned within the Newport News School division.
During her brief remarks, Branch mentioned nothing about a lawsuit, but among the reasons for not questions afterward was because of "potential litigation".
