US courtroom killer recaptured
12/03/2005 - 18:31:43Courtroom killer Brian Nichols, America’s most-wanted man, was finally recaptured tonight more than a day after shooting dead a judge and two others, police said.
Hundreds of officers had been searching for Nichols after he fled in a stolen car following the murders in Atlanta.
Nichols, aged 33, had been due for trial on rape, kidnapping and assault charges when he seized his guard’s gun, shooting her, a court official and judge Rowland Barnes.
He was captured at an apartment complex in the north of the city after a siege.
Just hours earlier a US Customs agent was discovered shot to death a few miles away and police are investigating whether the killing was linked.
