DeKalb Police Release 911 Audio of McNair School Shooting
Note: we have posted the complete audio of Antoinette Tuff’s 911 call at the end of this story.
DeKalb police have released the 911 call and more details about yesterday’s school shooting at McNair Discovery Learning Academy. During the incident no one was injured, but 20-year-old shooting suspect Michael Brandon Hill exchanged gunfire with police. Hill was taken into custody at the school Tuesday.
In the 911 audio, you hear the voice of school bookkeeper Antoinette Tuff and several gunshots fired by police or suspect Michael Hill. Police say Hill was inside the front of the school with Tuff with a loaded AK-47 assault rifle and nearly 500 rounds ammunition. During the call, Tuff told the 911 operator Hill was requesting not to allow armed police to come into the building and revealed information about who may have been Hill’s intended target.
“He said to tell them to back off. He doesn’t want the kids, he wants the police, so back off…He said he don’t care if he die, he don’t have nothing to live for. He said he’s not mentally stable.”
But Tuff was able to convince Hill otherwise. She eventually got him put down his gun and surrender.
“Let me talk to them and let’s see if we can work it out so you don’t have to go away with them for a long time. No. It does matter. I can let them know you that you have not tried to harm me or do anything with me…That doesn’t make any difference you didn’t hit anybody.”
During a press conference Wednesday, DeKalb Police Chief Cedric Alexander called Tuff a hero.
The complete 911 call from Antoinette Tuff.
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