"My stomach was in my throat for the whole time until I saw her face on the bus."

[Robb]

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- Rufus Morrow was at work when he got a phone call with the worst news he could imagine: Shots fired at his daughter's elementary school.

He drove "about 90 mph" to Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy where 800 or so students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade had been evacuated Tuesday in an Atlanta suburb. The police chief says a 20-year-old man with an assault rifle and other weapons was able to slip into the school where visitors must be buzzed in by staff.

The suspect, identified as Michael Brandon Hill, held one or two staff members in the front office captive for a time, the police chief said, making one of them call a local TV station. As officers swarmed the campus outside, he shot at them at least a half a dozen times with an assault rifle from inside the school and they returned fire, said DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric L. Alexander. Hill then surrendered. No one was injured.

Morrow said he almost cried as he told his supervisor why he needed to leave....

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[Little Star]

1. Wow. That Ms Tuft in the front office is the hero of this story.

[CTyankee]

5. It certainly took guts...geez, she talked him down with

a gun pointed at her...she saved those kids...

[mikeysnot]

2. wait for it...

[JustAnotherGen]

3. I can't imagine how those parents felt

Knowing what we know now . . . that is when we hear of a gunman shooting outside of an elementary school it will result in the death of defenseless children.

[CTyankee]

4. Ah, but "you've never been safer..."

and Newtown was an anomaly and...well, liberty...

[madokie]

6. Almost Cried

I'd have been a bundle of nerves, fit to be tied