Wednesday 21 August 2013

Shock, relief and Ga. A hero after school shooting

DECATUR, Ga. - Authorities said a man shot a day earlier in a primary school were trying to determine why the Atlanta area residents were breathing a sigh of relief Wednesday.

Antoinette Tuff, Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy bookkeeper, gunman calm down and convince him to surrender was being given credit for. The suspect, Michael Brandon Hill, he had stopped taking his medication recently told ABC said Wednesday. With police officers - that he was going to die as she is. No one was injured.

charge, was in custody.

Researcher T.L. Wortham DeKalb County Sheriff's Department Fugitive Unit officers were apprehending the suspect, he said, "I'm sorry, I'm going to meds." He told WSB-TV that several weapons were seized, Wortham said.

Hill's brother, Timothy, including suspected bipolar disorder "long history of medical disorders", and was obliged to tell ABC News that "doing something stupid."

Timothy Hill, 22, is not close to his brother and he thinks last saw him in January 2011.

"Some crazy one day he had a feeling I was going to end, but his size," he told ABC News.

870 students from fifth grade elementary school Challenger, exploded after takeoff in 1986 aboard the space shuttle astronauts who died in the name of one is used.

Schools across the country in the autumn as academic calendar are starting to come to the event. In many districts, a 20-year-old gunman before killing himself with a high-powered weapon killed 20 children and six adults when Newtown, Conn., Fired in December, to improve security in the light of summer More measures.

DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric Alexander McNair visitors approved school and need to be buzzed in a system, and after a gunman entered the option to have entry from the crop. The man did not get past the main office of the school.

School employee Tuff take down its arms and munitions have worked to convince gunman.

"He is sorry for what he had told me. Said he was ready to die," Tuff Diane Sawyer of ABC World News said in an interview.

She ends her marriage after 33 years of being involved in, it told the story of his life, he said.

"I said to him, 'Okay, we all have situations in our lives," he said. "It was going to be fine. Might be fine, if they can, too."

He put down his weapons and bags Tuff suspect is asked.

"He told police it was abandoned. Spoke to her only by her," he said.

Assistant Police Chief Dale Holmes, the suspect was not injured.

Hudson students were evacuated to a field behind the school and at a nearby Walmart with their parents again.

Television images from a helicopter ran out of the building, students, teachers and police escorted shown.

WSB-TV events as unfolding a woman were in the school office. The gunman and his Atlanta station is asked to contact police. WSB assignment editor called Lacey Lecroy woman with a man and his gun was visible that he was alone.

"It was horrible that this woman did not take long," Lecroy said. "Shots were heard, one of the last things. Was very upset about that."

DeKalb County Schools Superintendent Michael Thurmond place to live quiet and following safety plan, to protect faculty and students have praised the authorities.

"This is a blessed day. Most of our children are safe," Thurmond said.

WXIA-TV in Atlanta reports for King. Welch from Los Angeles. Contributed by: Associated Press.


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