DECATAUR, Georgia - A Georgia school shooting between a 20-year-old man, armed with an assault rifle and other weapons, and several police officers happened as the former opened fire an elementary school on August 20, Tuesday, meanwhile television footage showed students being escorted by teachers and faculty for safety. No one was injured, the school's Christian Science monitor said.
DeKalb Country Police Chief Cedric Alexander said that the boy - later on identified as Michael Brandon Hill - eventually surrendered to the responding police force after firing at least half a dozen of rifle bullets from inside a campus office to the open field.
Alexander said that the agitated and somehow confused man behind the Georgia school shooting was able to by-pass Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy's security, in spite of its strict system, by simply following an authorized employee, who was also on his way to school. Hill, residing almost three miles away from the school and having no clear connection or ties to the academy, was able to hold captive two employees of the school inside an office, the officer added.
Meanwhile, more than 800 students, from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade, were immediately evacuated from the vicinity through the collaborative effort of the school's employees. They were initially spotted outside the building, waiting for several school buses to take them to the nearby Wal-Mart, where most of their parents and relatives patiently waited. Three hours after the Georgia school shooting incident, the first bus came, relieving the relatives of the students from the unbearable grief and fear they were experiencing.
Although Hill's motive has not been identified, thus far, the 20-year-old is to face charges of aggravating assault against a police officer, displaying terroristic and threatening behavior in public, as well as illegally possessing a firearm belonging to a convicted felon. No specific court hearing date has been provided yet.
Earlier, one of the captives, the school's bookkeeper Antoinette Tuff, called and informed the Atlanta-based WSB-TV that the young gunman had asked her to prompt the local media about the situation. A WSB-TV representative shared, that several gunshots could be heard throughout the phone conversation.
Tuff later on said in an interview on ABCS's "World News with Diane Sawyer" that she actually attempted to convince Hill to put away all of his guns and ammunition. "He told me he was sorry for what he was doing. He was willing to die," she added.
Having experienced several bouts of misfortunes herself, Tuff began to share her life story, her 33-year-old marriage that ended recently, and the ups and downs of her career to the despondent gunman. "I told him, 'OK, we all have situations in our lives.'"
After a couple of hours, the bookkeeper came out, saying that 20-year-old Hill was already unarmed and is willing to cooperate with the authorities present.
Michael Thurmond, DeKalb county schools superintendent, lauded the faculty and staff as well as the authorities present in the Georgia school shooting, who selflessly put all the young students into safety whilst maintaining a calm resolve to the incident. Because of their harmonious effort, everyone was unharmed, Thurmond added.
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