安托瓦内特凝灰岩誉为“真正的英雄’ 处理格鲁吉亚学校枪手

(美国有线电视新闻网) — 由于孩子们列队回到了本周早些时候冲进了枪手的亚特兰大郊区小学, 每个人都在谈论安托瓦内特凝灰岩.

记账员, 八岁的老将迪卡尔布县学区, 谈到犯罪嫌疑人迈克尔·布兰登进山投降 一个短暂的僵持与警方周二下午后. 面对武装20岁的谁告诉她，他是他的疗程为一个精神错乱, 凝灰岩共享心碎的故事，从她自己的生活，帮助他平静下来 — 最近离婚, 多重残疾儿子.

凝灰岩是关闭周四的学生回到娥罗纳. 捷发现学习学院, 从一个预先安排的手术中恢复. But Principal Brian Bolden said he credited Tuff’s quick thinking for avoiding what could have been a major tragedy.

“Her name, Antoinette Tuff, says everything about her,” Bolden said. “Tough. She has always been that way from the first time I met her.”

在线, a Facebook page calls for Tuff to be awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, while praise overflowed on Twitter.

“Antoinette Tuff used kindness and love in the face of terror, saved lives and showed true courage. Bravo Ms. Tuff,” Kathy Groob wrote from Covington, 肯塔基州, in a typical reaction on Twitter. And in New York, Francis Lam added, “Everyone: learn negotiation from her.”

Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator, said Tuff’s performance was “amazing.”

“She didn’t do anything where she acted like a victim,” Voss told CNN’s “New Day.” “She didn’t say, ‘Please, don’t hurt anybody.’ She was very direct … she actually calmed the dispatcher down.”

Her tone of voice and matter-of-fact manner with Hill “did not encourage predatory behavior,” Voss said.

The recording of Tuff’s 911 call relays how calm she was.

“It’s going to be all right, sweetie,” she tells Hill at one point in the call. “I just want you to know I love you, 虽然, 行? And I’m proud of you. That’s a good thing that you’re just giving up and don’t worry about it. We all go through something in life. 在, you don’t want that. You going to be OK.

“I thought the same thing, 你知道, I tried to commit suicide last year after my husband left me. But look at me now. I’m still working and everything is OK.”

Tuff, 46, and her husband separated in 2012 后 26 years of marriage, and their divorce became final in June, 根据法庭纪录. Their son is 22.

A neighbor, Charlie Smith, said Tuff is friendly, but reserved. Their conversations have typically been limited to waves and pleasantries, 她说：.

“Everybody’s doing their own thing, going to their own jobs, and when you come home you’ve got a lot to do,” said Smith, who learned of her neighbor’s role in the McNair standoff on television.

“She handled it really well,” 史密斯说：.

Another nearby resident, Lula Rivers, said Tuff “sacrificed herself” for the children in her care, putting herself at mortal risk if things had gone differently.

“I am a retired teacher. We have a lot of teachers, principals and nurses in this neighborhood,” Rivers said. “I’m sure she did what comes natural for a parent and someone coming out of this neighborhood. This is a nice, quiet neighborhood, and we cherish our children.”

Tuff has worked for the DeKalb County school system for eight years, three of them at McNair, schools spokesman Quinn Hudson said. Tuff is one of three staffers at McNair who are specifically trained for dangerous situations like Tuesday’s, 他说：.

But DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric Alexander told CNN, “You just don’t see that type of interaction in these types of situations very, very often at all.”

“There are some things in life you can rehearse for,” Alexander said. “But this is a woman who just kept her calm, kept her wits about herself, maintained her composure in this very dangerous situation.”

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