A man slips behind someone else into a packed elementary school with an AK-47-type weapon. He goes into the office and shoots at the ground, then darts between there and outside to fire at approaching police. So what do you do? If you're Antoinette Tuff, who works in the front office at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy just outside Atlanta, you don't run. You talk. You divulge your personal struggles to the gunman, you tell him you love him, you even proactively offer to walk outside with him to surrender so police won't shoot. And then the nightmare ends with the suspect, later identified as Michael Brandon Hill, taken into custody and no one inside or outside the Decatur school even hurt, despite the gunfire.
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The woman who fielded Tuff's 911 call describes her as a "true hero"
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On a 911 call, Tuff acts as a go-between between police, the suspect
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She quotes him as saying he'd wished he'd have gone to a mental hospital instead
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The ordeal ends with Michael Brandon Hill's arrest and no one killed or hurt
This week's incident is not @placeholder's first run-in with the law.