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3 people dead in court shooting
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ATLANTA - A man on trial for rape grabbed a deputy’s gun and opened fire at an Atlanta courthouse on Friday, killing a judge and two other people before escaping and triggering a manhunt that ranged across several Southeastern states.
The suspect, 33-year-old Brian Nichols, went on the rampage despite added security ordered when he was found carrying homemade weapons a day earlier, District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said.
Killed in the shooting were Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes, his court reporter and a Fulton County deputy who confronted the gunman outside the courthouse and was shot.
The female deputy who was overpowered by Nichols while transporting him from a courthouse detention center to the courtroom was hospitalized in critical condition with facial fractures and a gunshot wound to the head but was expected to live, hospital officials said.
Late Friday afternoon, a caller to the district attorney's office who appeared to be Nichols, according to office staffers, threatened the life of Gail Abramson, the assistant district attorney who was handling his case.
Speaking to NBC's Dan Abrams Friday afternoon, Howard said that authorities were checking into the call, trying to determine whether or not it was a hoax, but Howard added, 'Based on what we have seen today, (Nichols) certainly is capable of it.'
Howard said he and his family, Abramson and her family and the alleged rape victim and her family were all in protective custody.
Speaking of Abramson, Howard said: “I think she’s in shock.�
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Authorities were searching for a green Honda Accord — with Georgia license plate no. 6584-YN — that was stolen from a newspaper reporter who was pistol-whipped in a parking garage
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word we got out of school for that today, the courthouse is like 1 mile from my school
we went on the roof like right after it happened and i think we saw him drive off in that green accord
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crazyness, last i checked they hadnt caught the shooter, any word on that?
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still at large, im guessing he bailed south towards like valdosta or macon, he could have gone tomacon, our school got on lock down and shit and got early release
Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
And I just lost it all
Well there's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny I don't have no money tonight.
That was a crazy game of poker
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yea my friends dad was in the courthouse for a prelim hearing with his client and saw it all go down
Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
And I just lost it all
Well there's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny I don't have no money tonight.
That was a crazy game of poker
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man that is one vicious convict. thats like something out of a movie. sounds like anyone he encountered he just kicked the piss out of. scary shit.
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he liked raped a shitload of ppltoo
lol he pistol whipped a journalist who wouldnt give him his car
Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
And I just lost it all
Well there's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny I don't have no money tonight.
That was a crazy game of poker
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so i bet everywhere swarmed with media and cops
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yea holy shit and the dude still got away, we saw the police helo in snipers and shit on rooftops
Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
And I just lost it all
Well there's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny I don't have no money tonight.
That was a crazy game of poker
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thats crazy, i used to work with this crazy black guy that used to be a drug dealer in atlanta and got arrested for tryin to shoot someguy a while ago. then he quit working where i worked and went down to atlanta to sell drugs again, i bet hes homies with him.
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when they catch him, he is gonna be so screwed
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the cops are just gonna kill him, once you kill a cop youre fucked
Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
And I just lost it all
Well there's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny I don't have no money tonight.
That was a crazy game of poker
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Isn't your school in decator andrew? It happened in cobb right? I don't know, I didn't get out of school, but it's still messed up.
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decatur , it happened in fulton, and from the hill our school is on we have liek a perfect view of the capitol and shit, wre like 2 miles away
Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
And I just lost it all
Well there's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny I don't have no money tonight.
That was a crazy game of poker
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thats some whack shit!
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they def. will catch him, they will probably set up so many check points on all the interstates. he couldnt have gone too far
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prob with that is that it would be so easy for him to elude escape on 285- its this highway that goes around the city with a shitload of exits or detours he could take to get away, atl is a horrible city to find a fugative
Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
And I just lost it all
Well there's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny I don't have no money tonight.
That was a crazy game of poker
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yea he prob knew where he was going to go and is now like disguised
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''The female deputy who was overpowered by Nichols...'' Yup that doesn't suprise me at all that somehow it was a woman's fault.
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that is freaking crazy. but i don't get how the hell he managed to jack a gun, shoot people, and escape. how can a guy just run out of a court room loaded with the law and make a gettaway? that's some pretty weak law enforcement right there.
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caught.
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funny thing was i was at a ski shop in the same town where he was caught, but he killed another person before that too, apparently he didnt even jack anycars until today and just walked out the parking garage where he pistol whipped the reporter and took the train back home
Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
And I just lost it all
Well there's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny I don't have no money tonight.
That was a crazy game of poker
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Well I don't blame the guy. It is just as Dave put it best, when you put a black guy in a room with a bunch of the craziest white people you can find, the guy is going to snap.
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yah, i was gonna comment on the 'female'. adding 'Female' to me seemed entirly unnessacary to the artical and very sexist. I dont know why im being so women's rights today, but it bothered me.
Im also amazzed that something like that could happen, its mind boggeling.
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yeah but if they just had one lady walking with him or something theres no way you can expect her to be able to control that guy, im guessing thats why they put that in there but idk
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probably cuz chicks are usually weaker than guys, thereofre ^putting a female guard in a position where she has to physically restrain a violent offender is not perhaps the best choice...not that they knew, and yes some chicks can kick, and im sure thers tons of femaile security guards who could kick MY ass, so dont go all feminist on me
but mayb e if there was a 250 pound gorilla there instead it wouldnt have happened
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Holy fuck he got caught!!! That dude is soooo fucked....
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