Posted on 03/16/2005 1:00:41 PM PST by beyond the sea
ATLANTA - A girlfriend of courthouse killings suspect Brian Nichols gave birth to his child just three days before the rampage, and she said Nichols repeatedly told her that he wanted to be with the child.
The mother's statements and transcripts from Nichols' rape trial are the most specific suggestion of a possible motive for last week's shooting spree. Prosecutors have suggested Nichols was worried about being convicted at the trial, but have not revealed a detailed motive.
"I do know that he wanted to be with the baby. He did speak about it all the time," Sonya Meredith, the mother of the baby boy, told The Associated Press. She said Nichols made those statements in the days and weeks leading up to the shootings.
Nichols was on trial for a second time for allegedly raping and holding hostage an ex-girlfriend when he allegedly escaped and killed four people Friday.
It was in the middle of that retrial, on March 8, when Meredith, another girlfriend of Nichols, gave birth to their son.
"I wanted to have a healthy baby," Nichols testified during his first rape trial.
Nichols' first rape trial ended in a hung jury on Feb. 28, and the second one started last week.
The day after Meredith gave birth, jail officials found homemade knives in each of Nichols' shoes. The next day, Nichols allegedly went on the rampage.
I'm thinking this guy's on-track for an insanity defense....
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Amazing...........
Yoi, three days of beer and food and a "post-coital refusal manuever". That's incredible.
Or marry the baby's mother? Or get a job and lead a respectable life as role model to that child? And, oh yes, how 'bout not raping a hostage in the first place?
I don't know anyone here who believes that. But you had to bring it up.
Tragic.....
By MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/15/05
The 13-year-old daughter of accused courthouse killer Brian Nichols said she was "in a state of shock" when she learned Friday that her father was the subject of a manhunt in Atlanta.
Jasmine Jay, who appeared Tuesday with her mother on ABC's "Good Morning America," said her mother came to her school Friday to tell her about her father.
The morning news and entertainment program showed home video of Nichols feeding his infant daughter in December 1992.
"I want to let him know that I still love him, because he is my father," Jasmine said. "And I just want to ask him, why hasn't he been in contact with me all these years. I want to know, do I have any half-brothers and sisters by him."
Jasmine's mother, Stephanie Jay, said she met the "very charming" Nichols in college at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.
"He was very funny; he liked to play jokes on people," she said. "He was very nice to me, the time we were together."
Asked by Diane Sawyer what Nichols most wanted for his life, Stephanie Jay said, "play football, go to college, make something of himself."
She said she and Nichols broke up when Jasmine was 1 year old.
"He came to see her when she was 2, and I remember them playing out in the yard," she said.
Stephanie Jay, of Allentown, Pa., said it was "very hard" for Jasmine to go on national television Tuesday, but said Jasmine "wants to get a message to her dad."
Nichols, 33, is a suspect in four shooting deaths, including a judge and a federal customs agent.
Funny that in his 7 hours with Ashley Smith he never once mentioned it. Nor did his previous attorney ever mention it.
Yep, sounds like a fine, outstanding citizen to me. Do I even have to put a sarcasm notice here?
ROFL
I would have included a couple of early 'Three Stooges' shorts to watch to seal the deal.
;-)
Hung jury.
his teenage (I think) daughter as on TV last night, saying she wanted to see her daddy.
Folks are just coming out of the woodwork for 10 minutes of fame on this case. It's tawdry TV.
Is there any real doubt that it was really rape?
Yes, not too candid of him, eh?
;-)
YES!
Believe it or not, my husband watched a Three Stooges Marathon on the TV in the labor room while I was in labor...I did forgive him...eventually.
He's an evil evil piece of garbage, with my apologies to garbage.
I dunno bout this. They leavin sumpin' out aint tellin' the whole story. Sumpin' don't smell right.
LOL! That's beautiful!
Too bad it was only a hung jury, instead of a hanging jury.
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