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Radio 4,11 mins

"He allowed us to know that he was there to take everyone's lives"

Woman's Hour

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On August 20th 2013 a gunman walked into the McNair Elementary School in Decatur, Georgia with an AK-47-style assault rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and announced, ‘We are all going to die today!’. Antoinette Tuff, the school’s book keeper, was taken hostage. She explains to Jenni how she talked him down.

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