Georgia: Five Year Rememberance for Courthouse Rampage

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ATLANTA – It was five years ago Thursday that Brian Nichols opened fire in the Fulton County courthouse, touching off a bloody rampage that ended with the deaths of four people.

It was on that day that rape suspect Brian Nichols overpowered a sheriff’s deputy — grabbed her gun, shooting and killing Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julia Brandau and Sergeant Hoyt Teasley at the courthouse and immigration agent David Wilhelm as he fled.

Nichols was captured in Gwinnett County a day later and convicted of his crimes and sentenced to life in jail.

Five years later portraits of the three people killed in the courthouse hang in the lobby. Thursday, those paintings were joined by another tribute.

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