DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — McNair Elementary School gunman Michael Brandon Hill appeared in a DeKalb County courthouse Tuesday morning and pleaded guilty in the school shooting incident.
Hill is accused of walking into Ronald. E McNair Discovery Learning Academy on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 armed with multiple guns.
No students, faculty or law enforcement officers were injured in the ordeal.
Hill's brother told Channel 2 Action News that his brother suffers from mental illness and got into trouble with police as a teen.
Hill was sentenced to 40 years in prison, with 20 to serve.