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.
God bless every child.
Yeah, he got him a tthirteen y.o., not payin his child support neither.
Well yes, but this child probably will never see her/his daddy.
LOL! Libs just never stop with the "understanding" crap, do they?
I don't know, but here's betting the baby looks nothing like Michael Jackson.
According to other posts, the one other child of his (that we know of) hasn't seen her Daddy since she was a few months old...and she's fourteen!
Yesterday his 13-year-old daughter was on Atlanta radio. She said she wanted her dad to know that she loved him very much. Also, she was curious where he had been for the past 13 years. (I kid you not.)
He claims he never raped her, he was set up. I guess he showed up with the dope, and the cooler full of beer and food, and the machine gun, and the duct tape, and he was just getting ready to party. Actually it would not surprise me that much if that were true, and she executed a post-coital refusal manuever that got him th'own in the slammah.
As an FReeper puts it, DAMN, just DAMN, but on the other hand, as martha would say, maybe "it's a good thing" the child doesn't know her daddy.
DUH, that should say as another FReeper puts it....
It doesn't really say (unless I missed something) where the baby is or was born.
This guy's whole life has been evil. So much for the "good guy" having a bad moment theory.
No wonder he was so angry at her. Who can blame him?
No, I saw no reference of that. I didn't know that there was one.
Mr. Nichols has not been inactive.
If you have a link to some reportage of this, I would be delighted to read it.
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt on post-coital refusal. Supposedly she was a very long-term girlfriend who dumped him when she found out that he'd gotten another girl pregnant.
Maybe the dope, the cooler full of beer and food, and the machine gun, and the duct tape were his idea of a romantic reconciliation...but, understandably, she didn't agree.
This is getting uglier.....
Why was he retried, what happened in the first trial?
This story gets worse every day.
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