A Tennessee homeowner held two escaped inmates wanted in the killing of two prison guards at gunpoint Thursday until authorities arrived and made the arrests.
Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Bill Miller said late Thursday that the homeowner caught Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose trying to steal his vehicle.
Miller says the escaped Georgia inmates had crashed a car while being chased by law enforcement and fled on foot into woods along Interstate 24 near the rural community of Christiana.
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Miller says something alerted the homeowner that people were outside his home and he saw the men trying to steal his vehicle. The trooper says the homeowner held the two at gunpoint with a neighbor he called until the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department could get there to arrest them.
Rowe and Dubose are accused of killing two guards on a prison transfer bus early Tuesday. Authorities had offered a $130,000 reward for information leading to their arrests.
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Authorities say Rowe and Dubose overpowered and killed Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue early Tuesday on a bus that should have been secured as it carried 33 inmates between prisons southeast of Atlanta.
Authorities had offered a $130,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the fugitives, whom Sills had called "dangerous beyond description."
The search had involved law enforcement officers all over Georgia, as well as the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Gov. Nathan Deal released a statement, “Rest assured, justice will be served. My sincere thanks to our local, state and federal law enforcement officers who assisted in the manhunt. Because of their tireless efforts, the public is safe."
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
People seem to think that if we just outlaw guns all crime will just go away. Nope, we don't have a gun problem in this country we have a moral problem.
Some friends of my mom are with our county PD. One is a helicopter cop, and flies around at night. She said if we knew the people and animals roaming our backyards at night we'd never walk outside.
If he had shot them for attempting to steal his car, he would have been the one going to jail, absent exigent circumstances (fear of own life or life of another). Holding him at gunpoint was the right thing to do.
Some friends of my mom are with our county PD. One is a helicopter cop, and flies around at night. She said if we knew the people and animals roaming our backyards at night we'd never walk outside.
If he had shot them for attempting to steal his car, he would have been the one going to jail, absent exigent circumstances (fear of own life or life of another). Holding him at gunpoint was the right thing to do.
In Tennessee, he could have shot them, especially since they were murderous escaped convicts on the run.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
Glad this ended with no more innocent lives taken.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
If I was the bad guy, I am thinking to myself "what is the chances this guy will really shoot me? and what kind of trouble will he be in if he does."
Sure it would be a sure fire darwinian move for a bad guy to try to run from someone holding a gun on them. But I just wonder if the thought ever crossed their minds.
Well I wouldn't doubt a gofundme page was started for those heroes once announced they wouldn't get the reward. I bet the get the reward plus a lot of donations.
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Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the bug.
If I was the bad guy, I am thinking to myself "what is the chances this guy will really shoot me? and what kind of trouble will he be in if he does."
Sure it would be a sure fire darwinian move for a bad guy to try to run from someone holding a gun on them. But I just wonder if the thought ever crossed their minds.
My thoughts were, if I were them, I would take my chances getting shot. If he misses, I've got a few more days of freedom. If he kills me, then at least I'm not in jail...
If he just hurts me, I get a few days in the hospital instead of jail...
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And the anti-gun people wonder why we fight so hard for the right to keep and bear arms. To be able to protect our property is the answer - just like this guy did.
I'm glad he came forward to get the true story out.
Glad he didn't have to even pull the gun.
God was in complete control.
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