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In 911 Call, Atlanta School Bookkeeper Calms Shooter With ‘Love’

Antoinette Tuff’s extraordinary empathy prevented a massacre, talking down a mentally ill gunman who laid down his AK-47—all captured on tape. By Patricia Murphy. Antoinette Tuff, the Atlanta-area elementary-school bookkeeper who talked a mentally ill gunman into giving himself up to police this week, rightly became a national hero Thursday as the 911 recording of […]