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School Clerk Convinced Gunman to Surrender

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Was armed with AK-47.

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David Goldman/AP; Dekalb County Sheriff's Department/AP (inset)

We have elementary-school clerk Antoinette Tuff to thank for the fact that Atlanta didn’t turn into another Newtown yesterday. Tuff says she convinced Michael Brandon Hill, a 20-year-old man who came to a school armed with an assault rifle and other weapons—to put down his guns and surrender.

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