Brave school clerk talked man out of U.S. school shooting bloodbath

ATLANTA (Reuters) – A woman credited with convincing a gunman holed up in an Atlanta-area school to lay down his assault rifle and surrender to police says the man was suicidal and preparing to die in a bloodbath before she talked him out of it. "He had a look on him that he was willing to kill, matter of fact he said it," said Antoinette Tuff, a clerk at the elementary school in the Atlanta suburbs where Tuesday's incident ended with no injuries after a tense standoff. "He was going to end his life and take all the cops and everybody with him," Tuff told Atlanta's WSBTV television news. …