Virginia teacher Abby Zwerner — and other staffers — repeatedly warned an assistant principal about the first-grade student who shot Zwerner in her classroom in 2023, according to testimony at the administrator’s trial on Tuesday.

Prosecutors say that despite days of violent and aggressive behavior by the 6-year-old boy, Richneck Elementary School administrator Ebony Parker did not search the boy or intervene in any way.

Parker is charged with eight counts of child neglect — one for each bullet in the boy’s gun when he brought it to school.

She is accused of ignoring multiple warning signs that the child — who is being referred to as J.T. — might have had a gun on Jan. 6, 2023, and that he was acting alarmingly.

Zwerner recounted how three days before the child shot her, he took her cellphone and threw it on the floor in defiance after she told him to do something.

“The student had gotten ahold of my cellphone and he had slammed it onto the ground,” Zwerner told the jury.

Then, the day of the shooting, Zwerner said J.T. “appeared to be off and appeared to be in a violent mood” — a fact that she told Parker when she went to the administrator that day over her concerns.

At lunch, she said, J.T. menacingly glared at the school security officer as Zwerner was speaking to the guard.

“I witnessed the student was staring her down, very focused on her and he slowly got up from his seat and ever so slowly approached, still not breaking eye contact at the security officer and that stuck out to me as well,” Zwerner testified.

Another teacher told Zwerner the child “threatened to beat up another student,” she testified, but the judge told the jury to disregard that as hearsay.

Zwerner then went to Parker and told her he seemed “off” and was “in a violent mood.”

Later, at recess, Zwerner said she was struck by the fact that J.T. had both of his hands inside his jacket “the entire time.”

Once back in the classroom Zwerner saw the boy look at her and she “looked over and a gun was pointed right at me,” she told the jury.

J.T. “was holding a gun and then I was shot,” Zwerner recounted.

The bullet went through Zwerner’s left hand and chest, she said.

Amy Kovac, a reading specialist who had regular one-on-ones with J.T., testified she reported her concerns to Parker two times that day. 

The first time was after two girls fearfully told her they saw a pistol in J.T.’s backpack and the second time after Zwerner texted her from recess about J.T.’s hands remaining in his pocket.

“The weapon in discussion was now in his jacket pocket,” Kovac said she told Parker at the second meeting.

Kovac said after hearing from the girls, she approached J.T. asking him about the gun and saying she wanted to search his bag.

“No one is touching that bag,” Kovac recalled the boy saying to her. “Which was very out of character.”

Eventually, Kovac heard a gunshot ring out and she immediately ran to Zwerner’s classroom.

“Abby is to my left. I see blood on her leg so I know she was hit,” Kovac testified. “To my right the children are running out and screaming.”

Then Kovac sees a gun on the floor and approaches J.T., restraining him while she called 911.

When the cops arrived, J.T. went ballistic she said, cursing and even hitting her, Kovac recounted.

“He was in my arms. He was agitated. He was cussing,” Kovac said. “I told him Ms. Kovac doesn’t like that language. 

“He turned gave me the finger and when I turned my head back, he punched me and my glasses fell off,” Kovac said, before handing the child off to the police.

Briana Foster, the former principal at the school, testified that not a single person came to her that day about their concerns regarding J.T. before the shooting.

She had been in meetings and didn’t find out anything happened until two kids and Parker frantically came to her office saying: “He’s got a gun,” and “She’s been shot.”

Foster said she barricaded the two kids in her office bathroom, called 911 and then left the office to find Zwerner on the floor surrounded by staff.

During Zwerner’s civil trial against Parker last year, a jury awarded her $10 million in damages after learning the toll the incident took on her, including the fact that fragments of the bullet remain in her body to this day.

Zwerner gave more detailed testimony at the prior trial about how she thought she “died” and was going “to heaven.”

At the civil trial, Parker’s lawyers argued there was plenty of blame to go around about how staffers handled the prospect of the boy possibly having a gun that day and that she was being made a scapegoat.

On cross-examination by Parker’s defense lawyer, Zwerner admitted she suspected J.T. might have had a gun after a teacher warned her.

When asked if she could have removed the boy from the other students, Zwerner responded: “In hindsight, yes I could have.”

Zwerner said she “trusted my colleagues” to act after she and others made reports to Parker.

“My understanding was it was being brought up to administration,” Zwerner said when the prosecutor asked follow-up questions.

Parker has pleaded not guilty.

The student’s mother, Deja Taylor, is serving just under four years behind bars for child neglect and weapons charges after her son took a 9mm handgun out of her purse.

The boy doesn’t face criminal or civil liability.