and turns to remove the other when nichols attacks, violently shoving hall into another cell. >> brian nicholsher. >> off camera, hall is brutally beaten. within four minutes, nichols grabs her gun, locks her in the cell, and changes into civilian clothes. he's about to begin a killing spree that will paralyze the city of atlanta for 26 straight hours. >> he walked calmly over to judge barnes' chambers in the old courthouse, took two of judge barnes' staff hostage, then took three more people hostage and held them inside of judge barnes' office, inside his chambers. >> 9:05 a.m., nichols barges into judge barnes' courtroom. he shoots the judge pointblank in the back of the head, and instantly kills him. this is an actual audio tape recording of the tragic shooting. [ gunshot ] [ screaming ] >> he then turned to shoot the prosecutor, realizing that the people sitting at the prosecutor's table were not the prosecutors trying his rape trial, turned from those lawyers, shot the court reporter. >> court reporter julie brandau dies a few minutes later. >> i was right outside the courtroom. >> ash jo

brian, christine and steven. >>> still to come, he was once known as the flying tomato, shaun white's olympic dreams have come crashing down. rachel nicholspe. that didn't go so well. we'll tell you all about it after the break. >>> just as quickly as olympic dreams rise, some come crashing down. the best known american man in these games, shaun white, finds himself leaving sochi without a medal. the united states, by the way, is in sixth place in the medal count. germany has the most gold medals so far. norway has the most total medals. they have the most medals. rachel nichols has more from sochi. >> reporter: and it's a tie for the first time in olympic history. two athletes are bringing home the gold in alpine skiing, slovenia skier, tina maze and domin dominic giesen. in another major surprise, the half-pipe left shaun white empty handed, coming down hard, falling short of not only his goal of three straight gold medals but short of the podium. the 27-year-old was disappointed after coming in fourth. overtaken by 25-year-old yuri pavlochikov or i-pod as he is known. while white might be singing the blues on the slope, he says he is g