The mother of a six-year-old boy who brought a gun to school and shot his first-grade teacher in January in Newport News, Virginia, US, will plead guilty to new federal felony charges as part of a deal with prosecutors, her lawyer has said.Deja Taylor, the 26-year-old mother, was charged with unlawful use of a controlled substance while possessing a firearm and with making a false statement while purchasing the firearm, specifically a semiautomatic handgun, the federal complaint states.Her attorney, James Ellenson, said Taylor's guilty plea was an "agreed procedure which eliminated the need for the government to take the case to a grand jury."
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