A teacher was injured and transported to a hospital on Friday after a shooting at a Virginia elementary school, police and school officials said.
Police did not provide details about the teacher's condition but said that no students were injured at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. A suspect was in police custody, Newport News Public Schools said in a statement.
Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said a call was received about the shooting at about 2 p.m. and authorities responded"within minutes." He said there is not a continued threat to the community. "We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting. We had a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired," Drew said in a press conference.
A spokesperson for the Newport News Police Department, Kelly King, said school and police officials were working to reunite students and families and would provide more information after further investigation.Newport News is a city of over 185,000 people, per the U.S. Census Bureau, about 40 miles out of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach. It's known for its connections to shipbuilding for the U.S. Navy.
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