Antoinette Tuff

Antoinette Tuff is a bookkeeper for the DeKalb County school district. She talked gunman Michael Brandon Hill into surrendering after he entered the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy and started shooting.
Shooting and hostage situation
On August 20, 2013, a shooting and hostage situation took place at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, an elementary school of the DeKalb County School District in DeKalb County, Georgia. A gunman with an AK-47 fired six shots inside the school's front office. After the gunman fired the shots, he barricaded himself in the office where he took several faculty members hostage. Police at the scene fired at the gunman. Nobody was injured. The gunman surrendered in the office and was apprehended. Children had to leave the building and were guided to a corner of a field, where they were picked up by their parents. The alleged gunman is 19-year-old Michael Brandon Hill.

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