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Exodus 28:33
And [beneath] upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
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Posted by: JG on Monday, March 14, 2005 - 10:05 PM
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Ashley Smith an Angel sent from God. Ashley talked Brian Nichols into giving up. Please Pray see Video. She talked this murder into giving up. She asked him if he believed in Miracles. Only Jesus could have done such a miracle. She read him the bible. What Thousand of Law enforcement officials could not do God did. God answered our prayers. Will someone join me in Praising our Lord that Brian Nichols turned himself in and no one else got hurt? Also will someone join with me in prayer for Ashley that she has wisdom to handle the press in this. And we need to pray for all the hurting families also.
| The Face of a real HEROINE |  | | This is the face of a real HEROINE. Ashley Smith, 26, tells reporters what happened during the 71/2 hours she spent as the hostage of Atlanta shooting suspect Brian Gene Nichols. So the next time you think the Lord could never use you. Watch out you never know what may happen. |
Hostage's Cool Compassion Disarmed Atlanta Fugitive
By John-Thor Dahlburg and Jenny Jarvie, Times Staff Writers
ATLANTA She trembled with fear before the armed man who was wanted in the shooting deaths of a judge and three others. But Ashley Smith kept her head, even when Brian Nichols pushed into her home by sticking a gun in her ribs, and bound her with masking tape, an extension cord and a curtain.
"I didn't want to die," she said Sunday. "I didn't want him to hurt anybody else."
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Ashley Smith the Angel from Heaven who talked Brian Nichols to giving up. Please Pray see Video. She asked him if he believed in Miracles. Only Jesus could have done such a miracle. She read him the bible. What Thousand of Law enforcement officials could not do God did. God answered our prayers. Will someone join me in Praising our Lord that Brian Nichols turned himself in and no one else got hurt? Also will someone join with me in prayer for Ashley that she has wisdom to handle the press in this. And we need to pray for all the hurting families also.
| The Face of a real HEROINE |  | | This is the face of a real HEROINE. Ashley Smith, 26, tells reporters what happened during the 71/2 hours she spent as the hostage of Atlanta shooting suspect Brian Gene Nichols. So the next time you think the Lord could never use you. Watch out you never know what may happen. |
Hostage's Cool Compassion Disarmed Atlanta Fugitive
By John-Thor Dahlburg and Jenny Jarvie, Times Staff Writers
ATLANTA She trembled with fear before the armed man who was wanted in the shooting deaths of a judge and three others. But Ashley Smith kept her head, even when Brian Nichols pushed into her home by sticking a gun in her ribs, and bound her with masking tape, an extension cord and a curtain.
"I didn't want to die," she said Sunday. "I didn't want him to hurt anybody else."
The 26-year-old woman, credited by police for bringing a massive search for Nichols to a nonviolent end Saturday, resurfaced a day later with a harrowing account of the 7 1/2 hours she spent as Nichols' hostage in the apartment she had moved into only two days before in an Atlanta suburb.
Captor and captive talked, and he untied her, she recalled on CNN and in accounts posted on the website of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He looked at her family photos.
She said the presence of the Lord came on her and she read to him from the Bible and "The Purpose-Driven Life," and cooked him a breakfast of pancakes and eggs.
" 'Wow, real butter,' " Smith said Nichols told her.
Progressively, she gained the trust of the man who, at that time, was Georgia's most-wanted fugitive, with a $60,000 reward on his head in connection with the slayings. "I really didn't want him to hurt himself, or anyone else to hurt him," she said.
Watching TV news about the carnage being blamed on him, and the multi-agency law enforcement operation mounted to capture him, she said Nichols told her: " 'I cannot believe that's me on there. No that's not me, I am not like that'
"He needed hope for his life," Smith said. "He said, 'Look at my eyes, I'm already dead.' I said: 'You're not dead. You're standing right in front of me. If you want to die, you can. It's your choice.' "
Police and the FBI were scouring Georgia and nearby states for Nichols, 33, after he allegedly grabbed a sheriff's deputy's gun Friday morning at the Atlanta courthouse where he was being retried for rape, and fatally shot his judge, a court reporter and another deputy. He then fled, and according to police, shot dead an agent for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agent worked on his new home.
Nichols was arrested Saturday morning after Ashley Smith talked him into allowing her to leave her apartment in Duluth, 20 miles northeast of Atlanta. She said she phoned 911 right after getting into her car.
Gwinnett County police responded with a SWAT team.
Smith's former captor, who described himself at first to her as "a soldier," offered no resistance to police, and surrendered by waving a makeshift white flag. "If you don't turn yourself in, lots more people are going to get hurt," Smith said she told him. She said Nichols called her "an angel," and said God had led him to her door so that she'd tell him he had hurt a lot of people.
She asked him, she said, if he believed in miracles. "You got out of that courthouse with police everywhere, and you don't think that's a miracle?" Smith said. "You don't think you're supposed to be sitting right here in front of me
. Your miracle could be that you need to be caught for this. If you go to prison, then you need to share the word of God with all the prisoners there."
Wielding a gun, Nichols had forced his way into the apartment about 2 a.m. on Saturday, after Smith returned from buying cigarettes. She feared for her life, she said, and told the armed invader she had a 5-year-old daughter, who was not with her.
"My husband died four years ago, and I told [Nichols] that if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or a daddy, and she was expecting to see me the next morning and that if he didn't let me go, she would be really upset," Smith said.
About 6 or 6:30 a.m., she said, Nichols told her that he had to ditch the pickup he had taken from the slain federal agent, David G. Wilhelm. She followed Nichols in her car, she said, because if she had refused, she might have been killed or someone else might have been hurt. She then drove him back to her apartment.
At 9:30 a.m., Smith said, Nichols let her leave to see her daughter. He offered to hang curtains while she was gone.
"I know he was probably hoping deep down that I was going to come back," Smith said, "but I think he knew what I had to do, that I had to turn him in." Before she left, she said, he asked her to visit him in jail.
Nichols was being held by U.S. authorities in an undisclosed location on a federal charge of possessing a firearm while under indictment. Officials in the office of Fulton County Dist. Atty. Paul Howard said more serious charges in the shootings would be brought against Nichols within 30 days. An initial court appearance was expected sometime this week.
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