The suspect in the Georgia school shooting incident on Tuesday has been identified and it’s been reported that he was previously arrested in March. Meanwhile, a school clerk is telling her story, saying that she convinced the man to give up.
The incident occurred at the Ronald McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia. No one was injured and all the children were accounted for. The students were seen running from the elementary school, meeting their parents at a nearby Walmart.
According to CNN, the suspect has been identified as 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill, who carried an AK-47. He fired off six shots at school police before he eventually surrendered.
Hill was arrested in March and charged with “terroristic threats and acts.” He had threatened his brother in Henry County with a note in late December, Henry County District Attorney James Wright confirmed. Court records show that he was convicted and sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to go to anger management classes.
In an interview with ABC News, his brother, Timothy Hill, said that Hill has a “long history of medical disorders, including bipolar, and that could make you snap on a dime.” Timothy Hill added, “"I had a feeling he was going to eventually, one day, do something stupid, but not of this magnitude."
Antoinette Tuff, a clerk at the school, also spoke with ABC News. “[I saw] a young man ready to kill anybody that he could and take any lives he wanted to,” she said.
She recalled how she convinced Hill to surrender.” I told him, 'OK, we all have situations in our lives. I went through a tragedy myself,'" she told ABC. "It was going to be OK. If I could recover, he could too." She then said that she asked him to put his weapons and backpack down and empty his pockets.
“I told the police he was giving himself up. I just talked him through it,” Tuff said.
Hill will be charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and terroristic threats for Tuesday’s incident.