School secretary talks gunman into surrendering

 

   

Police in Decatur, Georgia, are calling a school secretary a heroine for helping talk a school gunman into surrendering.  A recording from a 911 call on Tuesday reveals how Antoinette Tuff, a school clerk in the Ronald E McNair Discovery Learning Academy, helped talk Michael Brandon Hill, who was armed with an AK-47, out of shooting.

Hill walked into the school and fired shots, but not at anyone. Ms Tuff called the police and kept talking to the gunman until they arrived while school children were evacuated. The standoff ended with no one getting hurt. Hill was arrested.