ATLANTA, Ga.
Shooting widow’s appeal rejected
Georgia’s top court will not hear an appeal from the wife of a federal agent killed in 2005 by a courthouse gunman.
The Georgia Supreme Court has turned away the appeal from Candee Wilhelm, the widow of federal agent David Wilhelm. Her husband was killed at a home in north Atlanta hours after gunman Brian Nichols escaped from custody and went on a shooting spree.
The move lets stand the Georgia Court of Appeals decision last year to dismiss Wilhelm’s civil suit against several current and former Fulton County sheriff’s deputies who were on duty the day of the shooting.