Two escaped inmates captured in Tennessee after manhunt in slayings of two Georgia prison guards

Thursday, June 15, 2017
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. -- Two escaped inmates have been captured in Tennessee after a manhunt in the slayings of two Georgia prison guards.

GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles says 43-year-old Donnie Russell Rowe and 24-year-old Ricky Dubose were apprehended Thursday in Christiana, Tennessee.
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The inmates were being hunted in the killings Tuesday morning of two prison guards who were overpowered, disarmed and shot to death on a prison bus southeast of Atlanta.

Baldwin State Prison transfer sergeants Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue were slain. Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills called the fugitive inmates "dangerous beyond description."
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Authorities had offered a $130,000 reward for information leading to their arrests.

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