6-Year-Old School Shooting Trial: Abby Zwerner v. Ebony Parker — Day 3 Part 1
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Each day’s proceedings bring new testimony, evidence, and revelations about what happened inside Richneck Elementary School on January 6, 2023 — and the administrative failures that followed.
You’ll hear unfiltered courtroom audio, direct from the trial, as attorneys for Abby Zwerner seek $40 million in damages against former assistant principal Ebony Parker, accused of negligence so severe it nearly cost a teacher her life.
Hidden Killers brings you the voices, the arguments, and the raw sound of justice in progress — as a jury decides whether silence and inaction inside a public school can rise to the level of legal accountability.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to continuing coverage of the Abbey's Werner Civil Trial from the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.9 | Part is now in session. |
| 0:11.4 | On the vote, Matthew Hoffman presiding. |
| 0:14.5 | As always, there'll be no talking while his honor is on the bench. |
| 0:17.9 | Now you may be seated. |
| 0:19.9 | All right. |
| 0:20.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:21.4 | Good morning, I understand there's a matter to take up outside the presence of the jury. |
| 0:26.0 | Yes, Your Honor. |
| 0:26.6 | All right. |
| 0:28.0 | Jeffrey Bright, Your Honor, for the record. |
| 0:32.2 | Your Honor, we advised the court and the court urged us at the beginning of this trial |
| 0:37.3 | to make sure that it set we at agreement of counsel and urging of the court at 7 o'clock each evening. |
| 0:42.9 | We would provide a witness list for the next day. |
| 0:49.8 | Defendants in this case have subpoenaed 42 witnesses and they have asked virtually |
| 0:55.7 | every one of our fact witnesses to be reserved for trial last night at 7 o'clock |
| 1:01.5 | we advised the court early and counsel that we'd be finished either Wednesday |
| 1:05.5 | afternoon or Thursday morning no surprise the defendants last night gave us |
| 1:10.1 | one witness for today and that's a witness who's already testified, Officer Blythe. |
| 1:16.6 | I know that they have their own strategy to keep, but they've now told us their experts are unavailable to Monday. |
| 1:24.6 | There are at least 35 local witnesses here in Newport News that are under |
| 1:31.1 | subpoena and I'm just wondering like what would what's happening with one |
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