(AP) - An FBI spokesman says the woman who says courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols held her hostage for seven hours is expected to receive $20,000 in reward money that the agency pledged.

Thursday’s announcement comes a day after the FBI said it could not determine the “rightful recipients” of the reward money. Other agencies and organizations already have announced that 26-year-old Ashley Smith will receive the reward money that they pledged.

The single mother made the phone call that led to the Saturday arrest of the 33-year-old Nichols.

Smith will receive at least $62,500. Of that amount, $25,000 will come from the U.S. Marshal’s Office and $10,000 will come from Governor Perdue’s office. Another $5,000 will come from the Georgia Sheriffs’ Association and $2,500 from the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police.

FBI spokesman Steve Lazarus would not say when Smith would get the money.

Nichols is accused of assaulting courthouse deputy Cynthia Hall on Friday, taking her gun from a lockbox and killing Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes, his court reporter and a deputy. He is accused of killing a federal agent later that day.

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