The mother of the 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot his teacher at a Newport News elementary school with a gun he brought from home has pleaded guilty to state charges of felony child neglect charges, CNN reports.
Deja Taylor’s lawyers claim that she had the gun, fixed with a trigger lock, stored on the top shelf of a bedroom closet. As part of the plea agreement, Taylor will also plead guilty to federal gun charges. She faces up to five years in prison when she is scheduled to be sentenced in late October.