Thirty-eight-year-old Srour was born in the Bronx but her family comes from Beit Nuba village in Palestine and later lived in Qalandia refugee camp near occupied Jerusalem after leaving their village in 1948 . She holds a bachelor's degree in criminology and a master's in forensic psychology. She joins a number of American-Arabs who have recently been chosen to hold senior positions in government. Earlier this year, newly elected US President Joe Biden appointed Palestinian-American Maher Bitar as the senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council (NSC). This came after he appointed a Jordanian-American woman, Dna Shubat, as his senior legal affairs adviser. She joined Reema Dodin, a longtime Palestinian-American Capitol Hill aide, who was appointed deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in late November.
According to released court records, the six-year-old pupil who shot his teacher earlier this year in the United States boasted about the event, claiming “I shot [her] dead.”
The child is claimed to have acknowledged “I did it” while being detained following the massacre at a Virginia school, adding “I got my mom’s gun last night.”
Abigail “Abby” Zwerner, his instructor, who survived, launched a $40 million (£31.4 million) lawsuit earlier this year.
The adolescent has not been charged.
Deja Taylor, the boy’s mother, has been charged with felony child negligence and misdemeanor recklessly leaving a loaded pistol so as to risk a kid.
In June, she was also charged with unlawfully using a controlled substance while in possession of a firearm and making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
Ms Taylor will be sentenced in October and could face up to 25 years in prison.
The court documents also mention another incident with the same student while he was in kindergarten. A retired teacher told police he started “choking her to the point she could not breathe”.
