I am quite impressed with Ashley Smith.
A violent man in an Atlanta courthouse for his rape trial Friday morning took a deputy’s gun, killed the judge and three others, then fled. He found Ashley coming back from the grocery store and took her hostage inside her own apartment.
ATLANTA – For hours, Ashley Smith gently talked to the armed suspect in Atlanta’s courthouse slayings, turning from hostage to confidant as they discussed God, family, pancakes and the massive manhunt going on outside her apartment.
“I believe God brought him to my door,” Smith said Sunday, only hours after her 911 call ended a manhunt for Brian Nichols, who is accused of shooting four people since Friday.
Over the course of the night, Nichols untied Smith, and some of the fear lessened as they talked. Nichols told Smith he felt like “he was already dead,” but Smith urged him to consider the fact that he was still alive a “miracle.”
“You’re here in my apartment for some reason,” she told him, saying he might be destined to be caught and to spread the word of God to fellow prisoners. She told him his escape from authorities had been a “miracle.”
Held hostage by a murderer and rapist, she teaches him the Word of God and tells him he could do the same for fellow prisoners. Incredible.
Update here:
“You’re here in my apartment for some reason,” she told him, saying he might be destined to be caught and to spread the word of God to fellow prisoners. She also read the bible to Nichols, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta.
“He told me I was his angel, sent from God, and that I was his sister and he was my brother in Christ,” said Smith.
Chasing the Wind 
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