Former Kutztown University football player Brian Nichols has received a sentence of life in prison without parole for a March 2005 shooting spree in an Atlanta courthouse , according to reports .
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Former Kutztown University football player Brian Nichols has received a sentence of <m> life in prison </m> without parole for a March 2005 shooting spree in an Atlanta courthouse , according to reports .
Former Kutztown University football player Brian Nichols has received a sentence of <m> life in prison </m> without parole for a March 2005 shooting spree in an Atlanta courthouse , according to reports .
According to reports in an Atlanta newspaper:
Nichols was sentenced Saturday morning to seven life sentences and four sentences of life without parole plus 485 years .
Nichols was being tried for rape in March 2005 when he overpowered a female sheriff 's deputy , took her gun and shot the judge in his rape trial and the court reporter .
Outside the courtroom , Nichols shot and killed a sheriff 's deputy sergeant .
Later that day , as he attempted to elude police , he shot and killed a U.S. Customs agent .
He later made it to Gwinnett County where he kidnapped a woman who says she talked Nichols into surrendering .