Georgia School Shooting Hero Antoinette Tuff Michael Gives Account Of Negotiation With Suspect [VIDEO]; "He Had A Look On His Face That He Was Going To Kill";

Georgia School Shooting Hero Antoinette Tuff Michael stopped a tragedy from occurring on Tuesday.  A man, identified as 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill, exchanged gunfire with officers Tuesday at an Atlanta-area elementary school before surrendering.  It was just a week into the new school year and more than 800 students were in school.

Antoinette Tuff Michael was the hero of the Georgia School Shooting because she talked the suspect down from his plans and may have prevented casualties.

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In interviews, hero Antoinette Tuff Dodson described her encounter with the suspect of the Georgia School Shooting: "He first came in, I was like oh, and he said, this is not a joke.

"He told me he was sorry for what he was doing. He was willing to die."

"He had a look on him that he was willing to kill - matter of fact he said it. He said that he didn't have any reason to live and that he knew he was going to die today," Tuff said, adding that Hill told her he was sure he'd be killed because he'd shot at police officers. "I knew that if he got out that door he was gonna kill everybody," she said.

Antoinette Tuff Michael told him her life story, about how her marriage fell apart after 33 years and the trials of opening her own business.

Antoinette said: "I told him, 'OK, we all have situations in our lives.  It was going to be OK. If I could recover, he could, too."

Tuff Michael said she asked the suspect to put his weapons down, empty his pockets and backpack on the floor.

"I told the police he was giving himself up. I just talked him through it."