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Deja Taylor, whose son critically wounded his teacher, was also separately sentenced last month to 21 months in prison for marijuana use while owning a gun.
Deja Taylor, 26, still faces a separate sentencing in December on the state levelĀ for felony child neglect.
"Itās changed me. Itās changed my life," first grade teacher Abigail Zwerner told the "Today" show.
āThe family was all educators and said she was excited about doing the job,ā said John Eley III of the Newport News City Council.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The critically injured teacher is still hospitalized but doing better, the Virginia mayor said.
Police said the boy had a handgun in the classroom, and investigators were trying to figure out where he obtained it.