BREAKING: Assistant Principal Sobs In Court As Judge Dismisses All Charges Against Her, In First Grade Shooting
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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A Virginia judge shocked the courtroom, and the woman charged with 8 counts of felony child neglect, by dismissing all charges against former assistant principal, Dr. Ebony Parker. The prosecution rested its case after calling dozens of witnesses, including the first grade teacher who survived a bullet wound to the chest, maintaining that Parker failed to act appropriately after being warned that a 6-year-old student brought a loaded gun to school. After the defense asked for dismissal before beginning its case, the judge announced she was striking all counts against Parker, saying the court “is of the legal opinion that this is not a crime.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, the folks, it is Thursday, May 21st, and the trial of Ebony Parker is over. |
| 0:14.4 | And it ended before the jury even showed up to court this morning. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. This is a closely watched |
| 0:24.1 | trial. This is a historic trial in a lot of ways and robes. It is over. Not because of a mistrial |
| 0:31.3 | and not because of an acquittal. No, it is because the judge ruled that the prosecution did not prove its case. The defense, as is typical, asked for the judge to throw out the case based on what the prosecution offered. I think they called a total of 16 witnesses. And I was frankly surprised, but the judge said, we're done here. |
| 0:57.1 | This judge continued to surprise us throughout, quite frankly. And I say throughout the trial, |
| 1:01.9 | it wasn't that long. It was a couple days. It was two days of testimony, actually. They did jury |
| 1:06.2 | selection on Monday, two days of testimony. And today they didn't even get the testimony, |
| 1:12.1 | for the most part, |
| 1:17.7 | when it started this morning. A reminder, this was a very important trial for Rhodes because we can expect, unfortunately, to see more shootings, to see more school shootings. And this is the first one, |
| 1:23.4 | at least anybody can find, in which a school administrator is being taken to task held criminally |
| 1:29.2 | responsible for it. Yes, and we have seen trials in the past where law enforcement has been |
| 1:35.1 | held responsible and a jury has chosen not to convict law enforcement. That was specifically in the |
| 1:41.1 | Yuvaldi case. We've seen parents held criminally responsible, |
| 1:44.4 | and that actually has, I shouldn't, I don't want to use the word worked, but certainly |
| 1:49.6 | there have been convictions for parents who were held criminally responsible for their children's |
| 1:55.3 | act of violence. But it looks as though now going after police, going after school administrators. |
| 2:02.1 | So far, it's zero for two, I believe, at least. And so this could have been, and it certainly is |
| 2:08.3 | still precedent setting, this could deter prosecutors from pursuing charges like these in the future. |
| 2:14.6 | And this is Ebony Parker, who is an assistant principal being held |
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