Antoinette Tuff, a bookkeeper at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy is being credited as a life-saver and heroine for her actions dealing with a man who had snuck an AK-47 into the school. She is credited with calming suspect, Michael Brandon Hill, down and convincing him to surrender.
She told ABC News Wednesday that the suspect told her he was “off his meds”. She said he added that he was going to die — along with police officers. The suspect fired at least six shots inside of the school, forcing the evacuation of more than 800 students and a return of fire from law-enforcement officers.
The suspect’s brother, Timothy Hill stated his brother had a history of mental illness and this incident wasn’t completely unexpected. “I had a feeling he was going to eventually, one day, do something stupid, but not of this magnitude,” he told ABC News.
School clerk Antoinette Tuff said she helped convince the gunman to relinquish his weapons and ammunition by talking with him about her life-story, including the end of her 33 year marriage…
“He told me he was sorry for what he was doing. He was willing to die….I told him, ‘OK, we all have situations in our lives. It was going to be OK. If I could recover, he could, too.”
See Antoinette Huff’s interview with ABC News below…
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Source: EURWeb
