'He was ready to kill anybody': The heroic school secretary Antoinette Tuff who kept Atlanta gunman, 20, away from students and convinced him to lay down his AK-47 and surrender to cops

Kudos to Antoinette!

The reason I truly think this woman was able to act so calmly and heroically was because of her faith in God.  It makes a huge difference!

Daily Mailreports a gunman who stormed a suburban Atlanta elementary school with an AK-47 surrendered peacefully without hurting a single person after a heroic secretary faced him down and kept him occupied while students evacuated, it has been revealed. 

Michael Brandon Hill, 20, slipped into Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, on Tuesday afternoon behind a parent who was buzzed into the school's locked doors. He stormed into a front office and demanded a TV news crew film his ensuing shootout with police, in which he intended to die. 

But, his suicidal plan was thwarted by Antoinette Tuff, an unimposing, unarmed bookkeeper. She steadfastly refused to allow him to go anywhere near the young children of her school and then convinced him to drop his weapons, empty his pockets and give himself up. 

The shooting resulted in no injuries, but the incident nonetheless recalls the horrifying massacre last December at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which a lone gunman with an assault rifle killed 20 students and six teachers before taking his own life. 

Ms Tuff may very well have prevented similar tragedy at McNair Academy.

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