On March 11th, 2005, Brian Nichols was on trial for rape at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. When being transfered from a holding room, he overpowered a diminutive Female Deputy, took her gun and used it to kill three people; a court reporter, Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes and a deputy who tried to stop him from leaving the courthouse. His escape set off one of the largest manhunts in Georgia history.
—anonymous