Mother of 6-Year-Old Boy Who Shot Teacher Gets 21 Months in Prison for Marijuana Use While Owning a Gun

NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison for using marijuana while owning a firearm, which is illegal under U.S. law. Deja Taylor’s son took her handgun to school and shot Abby Zwerner in her first-grade classroom in January, seriously wounding the educator. Investigators later found nearly an ounce of marijuana in Ms. Taylor’s bedroom and evidence of frequent drug use in her text messages and paraphernalia. Taylor, 26, still faces a separate sentencing in December on the state level for felony child neglect. And Ms. Zwerner is suing the school system for $40 million, alleging that administrators ignored multiple warnings the boy had a gun....