School Clerk in Georgia Persuaded Gunman to Lay Down Weapons : The Two-Way : NPR
Then, ABC writes, “Tuff made the request that she said helped end the standoff. She said she asked the suspect to put his weapons down, empty his pockets and backpack and lay on the floor. ‘I told the police he was giving himself up. I just talked him through it,’ she said.”
During the incident, the 870 or so pre-kindergarten to fifth-graders at the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur were safely evacuated. At one point, the gunman exchanged some shots with police. But no one was struck.
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