A former assistant principal of an elementary school in Virginia who faces eight counts of felony child neglect in connection to a 6-year-old student who brought a gun to school and shot his teacher, "did nothing" when colleagues repeatedly warned her the child had a gun, prosecutors said in court Tuesday. 

Prior to the January 2023 shooting of first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner, school employees told then-assistant principal Ebony Parker they believed the student had a gun in his backpack. She dismissed their concerns, special prosecutor Josh Jenkins said, according to CBS News. 

"She didn't even get up from her desk. She didn't leave her office. Warning after warning after warning, she did nothing," Jenkins told the jury. 

Parker's attorney, Curtis Rogers, said if teachers feared the child had a gun, they should have taken steps to, at the very least, separate the 6-year-old from the other 19 students in the classroom. 

"Each one of those individuals had the authority to move those classmates," Rogers said. 

Jenkins countered that school policy at the time required crisis situations to be reported to an administrator who is required to take action. 

Parker was the assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia when the student shot Zwerner. The teacher spent two weeks in the hospital and had six surgeries. She survived but no longer has full use of her left hand, WFMJ reported. 

Last November, a jury awarded Zwerner $10 million in a civil case she filed against the Newport News School Division and administrators. A judge dismissed the administrators as defendants in the lawsuit. 

Parker is charged with eight counts of felony child neglect, a count for each of the eight bullets that were in the gun the student brought to school.