Michael Brandon Hill

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Michael Brandon Hill (born June 28, 1993 ) is an American suspected violent criminal who stormed an elementary school with around 870 children in Decatur near Atlanta, Georgia, as a potential gunman on August 20, 2013 . He was armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. He took the accountant Antoinette Tuff as a hostage , who eventually persuaded him to give up. When asked about the potential of the attack, Police Chief Alexander later confirmed: "There could actually have been another Sandy Hook ."

The course of events

In the morning Michael Brandon Hill entered the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy , an elementary school in Decatur, USA with an AK-47 assault rifle , various other weapons and 500 rounds of ammunition . Hill passed the secured entrance to the property unnoticed in the wake of a parent or an employee of the school. In the entrance area he met the school's accountant (secretary), Antoinette Tuff, and took her hostage. Hill asked Tuff to call a camera crew from a TV station; he apparently wanted to have his fatal shootout with the police filmed. He shot at the police officers who had meanwhile arrived at the school; no one was injured in the exchange of fire. After the shooting, he retired to the secretariat. Meanwhile, Tuff was able to call 911 without being noticed. The emergency call, recorded and later published on the website of " New York Magazine ", documents a conversation between the school employees and their kidnapper. During this conversation, teachers and staff managed to evacuate the children from the school. Hill allowed Tuff to make him give up, put down his rifle and lay himself on the ground to be arrested. His motive remained unknown. The media reported that Hill was "tired of life" or wanted to get attention.

The culprit

The mentally ill 20-year-old stopped taking his medication before the school was attacked. His hostage told Hill he should go to a mental hospital for not taking his medication. He did not come to injure children, but he wanted to speak to an unarmed police officer. Commenting on Hill's mental state, Tuff said, “He said nobody loved him. So I explained to him that I love him. " The DeKalb County Public Defender Bureau issued a statement calling Hill "a young man with a long history of mental health problems."

The sheriff's office said Michael B. Hill had been arrested in mid-March 2013 for terrorist threats in DeKalb and Henry Counties and given a suspended sentence. The police also spoke of serious bodily harm to a police officer. "He always had a problem with the police," said his brother Tim Hill. He also stated that his brother Michael posted on Facebook in December 2012 to kill him (Tim). According to police files, Hill was arrested in February 2009, when he was 15 years old for theft.

The day after the robbery, police released an undated photo of Hill posing with an assault rifle . According to police, it is the one used in the school. Apparently the gun came from a friend of Hills’s acquaintance, but it is unclear whether he stole it or had permission to use it.

Hostage Antoinette Tuff said in an interview with CNN : "He's a wounded soul and if there is any way I can help him I can do it and allow him to get on the right track - we all go through them Situations. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b heroine of everyday life | Persuaded to give up: Woman prevents rampage , in: Brigitte from August 22, 2013
  2. ^ Hendrik Ternieden: School massacre prevented: Die Heldin von Decatur , in: Spiegel online from 23 August 2013; Matt Smith: Georgia school shooting: Antoinette Tuff hailed as hero , in: CNN 23 Aug 2013; Preventing the rampage , in: Tages-Anzeiger from 23 August 2013; Klaus Rösler: The heroine who doesn't want to be on: Kath.net from September 8, 2013
  3. ↑ Greg Botelho, Vivian Kuo, Josh Levs: Antoinette Tuff hailed as 'true hero' for handling Georgia school gunman , on: CNN online August 23, 2013
  4. ↑ a b Michael Zennie: Atlanta school hero reveals she told shooter she loved him as his brother said he was a 'ticking time bomb bound to do something stupid' , in: Daily Mail of August 21, 2013
  5. ^ Emergency call recording , on: New York Magazine (website) from August 22, 2013
  6. ↑ Klaus Rösler: The heroine who doesn't want to be , in: idea Spektrum 36.2013, p. 44, from September 4, 2013 (online at: Kath.net from September 8, 2013)
  7. ↑ Petula Dvorak: Antoinette Tuff's 911 call on Ga. Shooting suspect is a portrait of poise, compassion , in: The Washington Post, August 22, 2013
  8. ↑ The prevention of the rampage , in: Tages-Anzeiger from 23 August 2013
  9. ↑ David Mattingly, Martin Savidge, Greg Botelho: School shooting suspect convicted for 'terroristic threats' in earlier case , on: CNN, August 22, 2013
  10. ^ Arrest records show that Michael Hill was arrested on February 18, 2009 for burglary.
  11. ↑ Photo: Hill poses with an assault rifle , on: CBS website of August 21, 2013
  12. ↑ Phillip Lucas: Michael Brandon Hill, Georgia School Shooting Suspect, Was 'Like Any Other Kid,' Brother Tells CNN ( November 1, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ), in: The Huffington Post, August 23, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Michael Brandon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American suspected violent criminal
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1993