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Atlanta Rumble The 33-year-old suspect, a former UPS computer technician, waved a white shirt, calling it quits after a fevered manhunt that began 26 hours earlier.
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The 33-year-old suspect, a former UPS computer technician, waved a white shirt, calling it quits after a fevered manhunt that began 26 hours earlier.
Details for the shaken metropolitan area were scarce throughout the ordeal, and the following report was pieced together through subsequent police and witness accounts.
On Wednesday, Nichols was found with what authorities described as "shanks," or makeshift metal weapons, in his shoes. The next day, Judge Rowland Barnes told the attorneys in the case that he was requesting beefed up security.
"He put his hand on my shoulder and he said to me, 'Be careful,' " said Barry Hazen, the attorney for Nichols.
'Reign of terror'
What one FBI agent referred to as Nichols' "reign of terror" began shortly after 9 a.m. on Friday at the Fulton County Courthouse in the heart of downtown Atlanta.
Moments earlier, Barnes, 64, was presiding in a civil case after arriving at the courthouse with his wife, Claudia, an administrative assistant for another judge.
Following that, Barnes expected to see Nichols enter his courtroom -- but not from behind the bench and brandishing a weapon.
Nichols was being retried on charges including rape and false imprisonment in a case involving his ex-girlfriend. After a relationship of several years with Nichols, the woman was "held against her will. She was savagely raped and brutalized over a fairly long period of time," Fulton County Deputy Chief Gary Stiles said.
Nichols' first trial had resulted in a hung jury a week earlier. Hazen said the case might have gone to the jury on Friday -- and that the prosecution had presented a stronger case than in the first trial.
Leading Nichols to the courtroom -- alone -- was a 51-year-old grandmother, sheriff's deputy Cynthia Ann Hall. First, she took Nichols to a holding area so that he could change into civilian...
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