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Smith asks if he would mind if she reads.
Nichols says OK. She gets the book she'd been reading, "A Purpose Driven Life." It is a book that offers daily guidance. She picks up where she left off - the first paragraph of the 33rd chapter.
"We serve God by serving others. The world defines greatness in terms of power, possessions, prestige and position. If you can demand service from others you've arrived. In our self-serving culture with its me first mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular concept."
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Rick Warren
What "level of living" are you reaching for? Survival, success or significance? Rick Warren believes God created you for a life of tremendous significance. One with a mission that fills you with energy, confidence, and satisfaction. A life with direction and impact for God's kingdom. A purpose-driven life. In The Purpose-Driven Life, the author of the phenomenally popular Purpose Driven Church uncovers seven essentials for understanding and fulfilling your God-given life mission.
http://www.familychristian.com/shop/product.asp?prodID=7226
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Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox - pastors.com
Issue #144 3/3/2004, The A to Z guide to a purpose-driven life by Tobin Perry. Editor's note: You may freely adapt this article for use in your congregation. ...
http://www.pastors.com/RWMT/printerfriendly.asp?issue=144&artID=5387
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Ashley Smith, 26, recounts her ordeal as hostage of Brian Nichols. • Story
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/noads/0305/14hostage.html
What happpened Friday and Saturday, step by step
Published on: 03/12/05
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/0305/13courttimeline.html
Based on law enforcement and eyewitness reports, the following events occurred on Friday and Saturday:
Friday, before 9 a.m.
• Judge Rowland Barnes, 64, leaves his home in College Park with his wife, Claudia, an administrative assistant for another judge.
• The couple arrive at the old Fulton County Courthouse on Pryor Street in downtown Atlanta.
• Judge Barnes proceeds to his eighth-floor courtroom to hear a civil case.
• Brian G. Nichols, 33, is taken from the Fulton County Jail in northwest Atlanta to Fulton's new Justice Tower downtown. The tower backs up to the old courthouse. In a holding cell, Nichols' handcuffs are removed so he can change from his jail uniform into civilian clothes for his rape retrial before Barnes. Sheriff's Deputy Cynthia Hall, 51, of Jonesboro is escorting him.
Friday, between 9 and 9:15 a.m.
• In or near the holding cell, Nichols attacks Hall. They struggle for at least three minutes. Nichols slams the deputy into the wall, takes her pistol and shoots her in the head. He flees with her weapon.
• Nichols crosses the eighth-floor skybridge linking the Justice Tower to the old courthouse. He takes three people hostage and enters the judge's private chambers. He rips out the telephone and searches the three for cellphones. He leaves and returns to the office several times, returning the last time with another deputy at gunpoint. He has taken the deputy's gun.
• Nichols handcuffs the deputy and pulls him into a closet. He then leaves. Moments later, shots are heard by his three captives.
• Witnesses say Nichols entered the courtroom from a door behind Barnes' bench and shoots the judge in the back of the head. He then shoots court reporter Julie Ann Brandau, 46, of Snellville. Both are mortally wounded.
• Nichols runs down seven flights of stairs and leaves the old courthouse via an emergency exit onto Martin Luther King Drive, setting off an alarm.
• Sheriff's Deputy Hoyt Teasley, 43, confronts Nichols on the street; Nichols shoots the deputy repeatedly in the abdomen.
• Witnesses see Nichols run into the nearby Underground Parking garage.
• Tow truck driver Deronta Franklin, 37, waiting on a dispatch at Peachtree and Wall streets, sees a sport utility vehicle pull into a parking garage entrance behind him and stop.
• Police cars stop at the corner. Franklin points to the garage entrance. The SUV crashes the gate and speeds into the garage.
• Police pursue the SUV. Moments later, Nichols, dressed in a green or blue jogging suit, appears at the driver's side window of Franklin's tow truck, points a gun at him and orders him to get out.
• The suspect speeds off in the tow truck, travels north briefly on Peachtree Street, then turns left onto Walton, a one-way street, heading the wrong way. He enters a parking garage on Cone Street.
• On the fourth floor of the garage, Nichols hijacks a Mercury Sable owned by Almeta Kilgo, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution employee. He orders her to stay in the car but she escapes, screaming.
• AJC reporter Don O'Briant is parking in the Centennial Parking garage, across the street from the CNN Center. A man pulls into a handicapped space. The man, who isn't wearing a shirt, gets out of the car and asks for directions to Lenox Square. Then he pulls a gun, orders O'Briant out of his car and tells him to get into the trunk. O'Briant refuses and Nichols hits him with the gun. Nichols drives O'Briant's Honda Accord to another level in the same garage.
• Nichols is caught on a video camera in the garage stairwell.
• Nichols catches a MARTA train at the nearby Omni station. He's possibly headed to the Lenox Square station. The Omni MARTA station is less than a block from the Centennial Parking garage, which is across Spring Street from the CNN Center. The center and adjacent Philips Arena are crowded with fans attending the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament, being played at the Georgia Dome.
Friday, 10:40 p.m.
• Nichols puts a gun to the back of a woman and forcibly enters an apartment. He gets into a fight with the woman's boyfriend and flees.
Sometime Friday night
• U. S. Immigration and Customs Agent David Wilhelm, 40, is working on a home he and his wife are building on Canter Street near Lenox Square in Buckhead. Police say they believe Nichols shot Wilhelm to death, took his gun, badge, and perhaps identification and stole his Chevrolet pickup.
Friday, about 11 p.m.
• An AJC pressroom employee, Tim Doss, spots O'Briant's Honda in the Centennial Parking garage. For about 14 hours, the car has been the object of one of the most massive law enforcement searches in Georgia history.
Friday night / early Saturday
• Nichols pushes his way into the apartment of a woman who is entering her unit at the Bridgewater apartment complex in Duluth on Satellite Boulevard near the Gwinnett Place mall. The two are strangers. He tells her he won't kill her if she does what he says. He is there for hours.
Saturday, before 8:30 a.m.
• Carpenters arriving for work find Wilhelm, the customs agent, dead in his unfinished house.
Saturday, 9:50 a.m.
• The woman at the Bridgewater apartment either escapes or is allowed to leave. She calls 911 and reports Nichols' whereabouts. A Gwinnett police officer is sent to the address. The officer calls for backup.
Saturday, shortly after 10 a.m.
• A Gwinnett SWAT team arrives at the complex. The Chevy pickup stolen from Wilhelm is found about two miles away.
• 11:30 a.m. Nichols waves a white T-shirt, indicating he wants to surrender. He surrenders to the SWAT officers without incident.
Saturday, 11:50 a.m.
• Nichols is transported south on I-85 in a black SUV, escorted by several police cars, to FBI headquarters on Clairmont Road in DeKalb County.
Saturday, 1:20 p.m.
• Nichols is driven to Atlanta City Hall East on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where the Atlanta Police Department has a homicide unit. He is booked on three murder charges.
Saturday, around 5 p.m.
• Nichols leaves the detention center in convoy. He is taken to the Richard B. Russell Federal Building on Spring Street. Later, he is scheduled to be held in an undisclosed location until he makes court appearances this week.
-- Compiled by staff writer Jingle Davis
Nichols says OK. She gets the book she'd been reading, "A Purpose Driven Life." It is a book that offers daily guidance. She picks up where she left off - the first paragraph of the 33rd chapter.
"We serve God by serving others. The world defines greatness in terms of power, possessions, prestige and position. If you can demand service from others you've arrived. In our self-serving culture with its me first mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular concept."
===========================
Rick Warren
What "level of living" are you reaching for? Survival, success or significance? Rick Warren believes God created you for a life of tremendous significance. One with a mission that fills you with energy, confidence, and satisfaction. A life with direction and impact for God's kingdom. A purpose-driven life. In The Purpose-Driven Life, the author of the phenomenally popular Purpose Driven Church uncovers seven essentials for understanding and fulfilling your God-given life mission.
http://www.familychristian.com/shop/product.asp?prodID=7226
=========================
Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox - pastors.com
Issue #144 3/3/2004, The A to Z guide to a purpose-driven life by Tobin Perry. Editor's note: You may freely adapt this article for use in your congregation. ...
http://www.pastors.com/RWMT/printerfriendly.asp?issue=144&artID=5387
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Ashley Smith, 26, recounts her ordeal as hostage of Brian Nichols. • Story
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/noads/0305/14hostage.html
What happpened Friday and Saturday, step by step
Published on: 03/12/05
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/0305/13courttimeline.html
Based on law enforcement and eyewitness reports, the following events occurred on Friday and Saturday:
Friday, before 9 a.m.
• Judge Rowland Barnes, 64, leaves his home in College Park with his wife, Claudia, an administrative assistant for another judge.
• The couple arrive at the old Fulton County Courthouse on Pryor Street in downtown Atlanta.
• Judge Barnes proceeds to his eighth-floor courtroom to hear a civil case.
• Brian G. Nichols, 33, is taken from the Fulton County Jail in northwest Atlanta to Fulton's new Justice Tower downtown. The tower backs up to the old courthouse. In a holding cell, Nichols' handcuffs are removed so he can change from his jail uniform into civilian clothes for his rape retrial before Barnes. Sheriff's Deputy Cynthia Hall, 51, of Jonesboro is escorting him.
Friday, between 9 and 9:15 a.m.
• In or near the holding cell, Nichols attacks Hall. They struggle for at least three minutes. Nichols slams the deputy into the wall, takes her pistol and shoots her in the head. He flees with her weapon.
• Nichols crosses the eighth-floor skybridge linking the Justice Tower to the old courthouse. He takes three people hostage and enters the judge's private chambers. He rips out the telephone and searches the three for cellphones. He leaves and returns to the office several times, returning the last time with another deputy at gunpoint. He has taken the deputy's gun.
• Nichols handcuffs the deputy and pulls him into a closet. He then leaves. Moments later, shots are heard by his three captives.
• Witnesses say Nichols entered the courtroom from a door behind Barnes' bench and shoots the judge in the back of the head. He then shoots court reporter Julie Ann Brandau, 46, of Snellville. Both are mortally wounded.
• Nichols runs down seven flights of stairs and leaves the old courthouse via an emergency exit onto Martin Luther King Drive, setting off an alarm.
• Sheriff's Deputy Hoyt Teasley, 43, confronts Nichols on the street; Nichols shoots the deputy repeatedly in the abdomen.
• Witnesses see Nichols run into the nearby Underground Parking garage.
• Tow truck driver Deronta Franklin, 37, waiting on a dispatch at Peachtree and Wall streets, sees a sport utility vehicle pull into a parking garage entrance behind him and stop.
• Police cars stop at the corner. Franklin points to the garage entrance. The SUV crashes the gate and speeds into the garage.
• Police pursue the SUV. Moments later, Nichols, dressed in a green or blue jogging suit, appears at the driver's side window of Franklin's tow truck, points a gun at him and orders him to get out.
• The suspect speeds off in the tow truck, travels north briefly on Peachtree Street, then turns left onto Walton, a one-way street, heading the wrong way. He enters a parking garage on Cone Street.
• On the fourth floor of the garage, Nichols hijacks a Mercury Sable owned by Almeta Kilgo, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution employee. He orders her to stay in the car but she escapes, screaming.
• AJC reporter Don O'Briant is parking in the Centennial Parking garage, across the street from the CNN Center. A man pulls into a handicapped space. The man, who isn't wearing a shirt, gets out of the car and asks for directions to Lenox Square. Then he pulls a gun, orders O'Briant out of his car and tells him to get into the trunk. O'Briant refuses and Nichols hits him with the gun. Nichols drives O'Briant's Honda Accord to another level in the same garage.
• Nichols is caught on a video camera in the garage stairwell.
• Nichols catches a MARTA train at the nearby Omni station. He's possibly headed to the Lenox Square station. The Omni MARTA station is less than a block from the Centennial Parking garage, which is across Spring Street from the CNN Center. The center and adjacent Philips Arena are crowded with fans attending the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament, being played at the Georgia Dome.
Friday, 10:40 p.m.
• Nichols puts a gun to the back of a woman and forcibly enters an apartment. He gets into a fight with the woman's boyfriend and flees.
Sometime Friday night
• U. S. Immigration and Customs Agent David Wilhelm, 40, is working on a home he and his wife are building on Canter Street near Lenox Square in Buckhead. Police say they believe Nichols shot Wilhelm to death, took his gun, badge, and perhaps identification and stole his Chevrolet pickup.
Friday, about 11 p.m.
• An AJC pressroom employee, Tim Doss, spots O'Briant's Honda in the Centennial Parking garage. For about 14 hours, the car has been the object of one of the most massive law enforcement searches in Georgia history.
Friday night / early Saturday
• Nichols pushes his way into the apartment of a woman who is entering her unit at the Bridgewater apartment complex in Duluth on Satellite Boulevard near the Gwinnett Place mall. The two are strangers. He tells her he won't kill her if she does what he says. He is there for hours.
Saturday, before 8:30 a.m.
• Carpenters arriving for work find Wilhelm, the customs agent, dead in his unfinished house.
Saturday, 9:50 a.m.
• The woman at the Bridgewater apartment either escapes or is allowed to leave. She calls 911 and reports Nichols' whereabouts. A Gwinnett police officer is sent to the address. The officer calls for backup.
Saturday, shortly after 10 a.m.
• A Gwinnett SWAT team arrives at the complex. The Chevy pickup stolen from Wilhelm is found about two miles away.
• 11:30 a.m. Nichols waves a white T-shirt, indicating he wants to surrender. He surrenders to the SWAT officers without incident.
Saturday, 11:50 a.m.
• Nichols is transported south on I-85 in a black SUV, escorted by several police cars, to FBI headquarters on Clairmont Road in DeKalb County.
Saturday, 1:20 p.m.
• Nichols is driven to Atlanta City Hall East on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where the Atlanta Police Department has a homicide unit. He is booked on three murder charges.
Saturday, around 5 p.m.
• Nichols leaves the detention center in convoy. He is taken to the Richard B. Russell Federal Building on Spring Street. Later, he is scheduled to be held in an undisclosed location until he makes court appearances this week.
-- Compiled by staff writer Jingle Davis
