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    Ricky Allen Dubose - Georgia



    Georgia correctional officers Sgt. Curtis Billue, and Sgt. Christopher Monica


    Captured inmates Donnie Rowe (left) and Ricky Dubose.



    June 13, 2017

    Prison guards killed; prisoners on the run

    By Kristen Reed
    WXIA-TV

    PUTNAM COUNTY, Ga. -- Two prison guards are dead after being shot and killed by prisoners in Putnam County.

    The Putnam County Sheriff's office confirmed to 11Alive that two prisoners being transported on a bus were able to overpower the guards before killing them and escaping.

    This happened on Hwy 16 West of Sparta near Eatonton. The US Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force is involved.

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    Update: Two Inmates on the Run in Georgia

    Breaking: Georgia Corrections say Donnie Russell Rowe and Ricky Dubose are on the run after escaping from custody in Putnam County.

    The prisoners were allegedly on work duty and traveling on a prison bus when they overpowered the prison guards, killed them and ran.

    Both convicted of armed robbery. One sentenced to life without parole.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

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    UPDATE | Gov. Deal vows to deploy "every state resource necessary" to capture escaped inmates

    WRDW-TV

    1:44 p.m.

    ATLANTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Georgia Governor Nathan Deal released a statement, vowing to deploy every state resource necessary to help capture the two inmates escaped from custody.

    The statement reads:

    Today, two families lost everything in a heinous and senseless act of violence perpetrated at the hands of cowards. Words do not adequately express our sorrow in losing Sergeant Christopher Monica and Sergeant Curtis Billue in the line of duty. The selflessness and courage of these two brave souls will not be forgotten, nor will their sacrifice and service.

    Sandra and I mourn alongside their families and communities, and we offer our deepest sympathies to their loved ones. Our heartbreak is matched only in our resolve to bring their murderers to justice. No effort will be spared in pursuit of the killers, and no state resources required in this endeavor will be spared.

    Led by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, multiple local, state and federal agencies are assisting in the investigation. State law enforcement agencies involved in the manhunt include the Georgia Department of Corrections, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia Department of Public Safety, and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Joining them are our federal partners from the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Local law enforcement officers engaged in the effort include the Baldwin, Greene, Henry and Jasper Counties Sheriffs’ Offices and the Eatonton Police Department.

    Finally, I urge all those in the surrounding areas to be vigilant and cautious while the killers remain at large. They are extremely dangerous. Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts should immediately contact 9-1-1.


    PUTNAM COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills spoke at a news conference this afternoon, where he reiterated that the two escapees were not part of a work detail. Dubose and Donnie Rowe were on their way to Jackson to a Diagnostic Facility, this is a hub for them to be transported to another facility.

    Some of the inmates that were on the bus are cooperating with investigators, and investigators are still looking for the green Honda Civic.

    Sheriff Sills said they have the full resources of the FBI, GBI, Department of Corrections, and Georgia State Patrol in addition to 30 to 40 deputies.

    "Every police officer of any kind in this state," Sheriff Sills stated.

    The search for the two escapees is now being conducted across the country. Sheriff Sill's biggest worry is that they are going to kill somebody else.

    Department of Corrections Commissioner Greg Dozier described the incident as a "tragic event." He talked about both of the slain correctional officers, saying both were tenured and leave behind families.

    “We are going to put all the resources we can to bring these to justice,” said Dozier.

    We are also learning additional details about the transport. Officers that are in transport don't have ballistic vests, but they do carry weapons. The gates between officers and prisoners are typically locked.

    The bus that transported the prisoners was manufactured in 2015. There are cameras on the bus and investigators are reviewing the footage, however, the Sheriff's Office stated that the video is not being released at this time. The bus has since been moved from the scene.

    Inmates on the bus stayed seated until investigators arrived, one of the inmates was a validated gang member. Inmates had a cell phone on the bus but they tossed it out. Prisoners on the bus also do not know when they are being transported ahead of time.

    There have been no reported sightings of Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe, but investigators believe that they could be headed anywhere. They escaped west towards Eatonton around 6:45 a.m.

    Sheriff Sills got very emotional when he spoke of the corrections officers, "I have their blood on my shoes.”

    One of the escaped inmates that shot and killed two corrections officers has had previous run-ins with the law in North Augusta.

    North Augusta Department of Public Safety says Ricky Dubose was most recently arrested by their department back in 2013 for possession of methamphetamine. According to SCCourts.org; the case was ultimately dismissed, and he was not indicted on a charge.

    Both escapees should be considered armed and dangerous, and are both wanted for homicide. If you have any information, call police immediately.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

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    June 15, 2017

    Escaped inmates still on the run, stole second pickup truck: sheriff

    By Associated Press

    Two Georgia inmates who killed their guards and escaped from a prison have stolen a second vehicle as they try to stay ahead of a massive manhunt, a sheriff said Wednesday.

    Donnie Russell Rowe, serving life without parole, and Ricky Dubose, who has prominent tattoos on his face and neck, took a white pickup truck from an industrial site sometime between 6 p.m. Tuesday and 6 a.m. Wednesday, potentially enabling them to get hours away before the theft was discovered, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said.

    Sills described the fugitives as violent repeat offenders and extremely dangerous, having taken the guards’ 9 mm pistols. He urged anyone who sees them to call 911 immediately.

    “They just murdered two corrections officers in a brutal fashion,” Sills said. “They’re not concerned with anything regarding human life.”

    Immediately after the killings early Tuesday, the pair carjacked a driver who happened to pull up behind the bus on a rural highway. They took off with the Honda driver’s phone, leaving 31 other inmates locked in the bus with the two dead guards, and were gone by the time help arrived.

    Hours later, authorities converged on the small city of Madison, about 25 miles to the north, where they determined the fugitives had ransacked a house around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. Sills said the fugitives took some food and likely some clothes, since they left their prison uniforms behind.

    Authorities put up roadblocks, only to discover Wednesday morning that the pickup had been stolen, about 9 miles from the burglary. Now authorities are searching for a 2008 white Ford F250 pickup truck with the Georgia tag BCX-5372. The Honda was found later, intentionally hidden in woods not far from the burglarized house, Sills said.

    Sills agreed with reporters that Dubose will have trouble hiding his prominent tattoos, which include crowns above his eyebrows, a star below his right ear and graffiti-style letters all across his neck. Sills said Dubose also has “ghost” tattooed on his right forefinger and “face” on his right pinky finger — signs of membership in the Ghost Face Gangsters.

    Both escaped inmates were serving long sentences for armed robbery and other crimes. The Department of Corrections website indicates Rowe has been serving life without parole since 2002, and Dubose began a 20-year sentence in 2015.

    The inmates have been cellmates more than once in Georgia’s prisons, had known each other for “quite a while” and may have planned the escape together, Department of Corrections Assistant Commissioner Ricky Myrick said. He wasn’t sure whether they were cellmates at Baldwin State Prison immediately prior to the escape.

    Baldwin State Prison officers Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue were driving 33 inmates between prisons when Rowe and Dubose overpowered them and then used the guards’ guns to kill them around 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, authorities have said.

    The other inmates have been questioned and a camera on the bus recorded the guards being shot, but corrections officials have not explained to the public how the pair managed to get through the inmate compartment’s normally locked door.

    “They were inside the caged area of the bus,” Sills said. “How they got through the locks and things up to that area I do not know.”

    The sheriff said he’s watched the bus video on a cellphone, and couldn’t immediately tell which inmate fired the fatal shots.

    Monica, 42, and Billue, 58, were both transfer sergeants at Baldwin State Prison. Monica had been with the Georgia Department of Corrections since October 2009 and Billue since July 2007.

    “Officer Billue’s family asks for prayers for all of those who are now placing their own lives at risk to bring these men to justice and asks anyone who has information that may assist in apprehending these perpetrators to please contact law enforcement,”

    Jim Green, an attorney who’s speaking for the Billue family, said in an email Tuesday.

    The reward for information leading to their arrest grew Wednesday to $90,000, contributed by multiple agencies, Sills said.

    The FBI announced plans to hold a news conference in Madison on Thursday along with state and local law enforcement to provide a “comprehensive update” on the investigation.

    Sills said it’s likely the pair has left the Madison area. Many law enforcement officers from local, state and federal agencies are hunting for them. “They’ve certainly had time to get out of the state,” Sills said.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/15...k-sheriff.html
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

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    2 escaped Georgia inmates have been captured, officials say

    By Peter Martinez
    CBS News

    Two escaped Georgia inmates have been captured, according to a tweet from Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. They have been on the run since Tuesday after killing two guards on a prison bus in Georgia.

    Gov. Deal's tweet reads
    that the fugitives are "in custody following car chase" in Tennessee.

    Ricky Dubose, 24, and Donnie Rowe, 43, were in Shelbyville, Tennessee, on Thursday morning, according to the FBI.

    It was believed that Dubose and Rowe tied up a couple in Shelbyville and stole a black Jeep and guns, according to CBS affiliate WGCL-TV.

    The station adds that police officials stopped a car they believed to be Dubose and Rowe on Interstate 24. The suspects fled from the car and captured, WGCL reported.

    The inmates were being transported in a bus Tuesday morning when they allegedly overpowered two corrections officers on board, stealing their firearms and carjacking a green Honda Civic.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation released these photographs of captured fugitives Ricky Dubose, lower, and Donnie Rowe.


    June 16, 2017

    Prison bus was ‘tank of piranhas’ as guards slain; death penalty sought for escapees

    By Liz Fabian and Joe Kovac Jr.
    The Telegraph

    Convicts on a Georgia prison bus appeared to laugh and jump around as two corrections officers were shot to death earlier this week in an escape that prompted a nationwide manhunt.

    The callousness of the crime has authorities preparing to seek the death penalty for accused killers Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell “Whiskey” Rowe.

    “We’ve got too many of these savages out here. We need to keep them caged up and send those to hell that we can,” Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said Friday, a day after Rowe and Dubose were caught south of Nashville, Tennessee.

    The sheriff has seen surveillance video from the bus that shows Tuesday’s attack on guards Curtis Billue and Chris Monica.

    Sills suspects some of the prisoners knew something was afoot by the way they moved to the back of the bus. They may not have known the guards were about to be killed, but their behavior was unsettling.

    “They’re no different than a tank full of piranhas,” Sills said. “They’re purposely jumping around and laughing and going on.”

    The killings happened along on Ga. Highway 16 between Sparta and Eatonton.

    Billue and Monica were taking 33 inmates to the prison at Jackson when Dubose and Rowe, former cellmates, somehow got through a metal barrier on the bus.

    “I can see them do it (on the video), but I don’t know how they did it,” Sills said. “You can see them mess with (the lock) a little before they go in. But it was not locked when I got on the bus, and I was the first person on the bus.”

    Rowe and Dubose fought the officer who wasn’t driving and somehow got their hands on an officer’s pistol.

    “The bus driver gets shot and the guy riding shotgun gets shot and his body collapses down the stairwell of the bus door,” Sills said.

    A tracking device on the bus showed that it stopped on the highway south of Lake Oconee at 6:44 a.m.

    The accused killers were initially trapped on the bus by the mortally wounded guard lying in front of the door.

    After busting a window on the folding exit door and squeezing through, Rowe and Dubose began their three-day flight by commandeering a passerby’s Honda Civic. The car had stopped behind the bus, which was blocking the road.

    Video footage shows other prisoners possibly trying to make a break for it, but apparently thinking better of it and returning to the bus.

    “I think they were concerned that their walk might lead to a ride on that needle,” Sills said, referring to execution by lethal injection.

    By Thursday, the fugitives believed they were dead men walking.

    Having eluded the dragnet for two days, they took an elderly couple hostage in their home near Shelbyville, Tennessee.

    Bedford County Sheriff Austin Swing said the husband and wife were “extremely traumatized” and feared for their lives.

    Dubose and Rowe told the couple the men didn’t have anything to lose, that “they would probably be dead in 24 hours.”

    Earlier Thursday in Moore County near Lynchburg, Tennessee, the escapees stole a sedan after ditching the Ford F-250 pickup taken from Madison, Georgia, late Tuesday.

    They got as far as Bedford County before abandoning the vehicle on the side of the road.

    “I’m assuming and think it broke down on ’em, but they may have decided just to ditch it,” Swing said.

    The escapees walked a little ways up the road, barged into the couple’s house and put guns to both of their heads.

    Rowe and Dubose tied them up, ate some beef stew, grabbed some clothes, boots and jewelry.

    Sills said they hid in the house for about three hours as Bedford County deputies were down the street with the abandoned car.

    Once the scene cleared, the accused killers left in the couple’s Jeep Cherokee and threatened the husband and wife that they would come back for them if the couple told on them.

    About 15 minutes later, the man was able to break free and called authorities.

    A new lookout on the Jeep was posted and deputies spotted the car on Interstate 24, about 50 miles southeast of Nashville.

    The chase reached speeds of over 100 mph, Sgt. Dan Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office told reporters.

    “A highly dangerous situation, two extremely dangerous people, well-armed and traveling high-speed through our community was a grave concern,” Goodwin said.

    Shots were fired at the pursuing officers, but deputies did not return fire, Rutherford County Sheriff Michael Fitzhugh said.

    Rowe and Dubose crashed the car and ran into the woods and came upon a house at the end of a long driveway in Christiana, Tennessee.

    The homeowner saw them trying to steal his car and came out with an AR-15 rifle pointed at them.

    He and a neighbor held them at gunpoint until officers arrived.

    Seeing the men face down on the concrete driveway with their hands bound behind their back was a relief to law enforcement officers across the Southeast.

    The GBI will reward the “bravery of Tennessee civilians” who helped apprehend the fugitives by distributing the $141,000 in reward money.

    Rowe and Dubose will be held in Tennessee awaiting extradition to Middle Georgia to face murder charges.

    Putnam District Attorney Stephen Bradley plans to review the evidence and move forward “quickly,” he said.

    “I cannot imagine a case being more serious than this.”

    http://www.macon.com/news/local/crim...156669934.html
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    June 18, 2017

    Tennessee man's confrontation with Georgia fugitives sparks talk about gun ownership

    By Nate Rau
    The Tennessean

    The harrowing confrontation between escaped Georgia fugitives and a Christiana man rekindled rallying cries about the value of gun ownership.

    Patrick Hale, 35, was in his car with his 3-year-old daughter, gun in hand, when he came face to face with fugitives Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe in his driveway.

    Hale said the first thing he did after hearing the fugitives could be nearby was load every gun in his house. When he saw them cross a fence 300 yards from his back door, he called 911.

    After choosing between barricading himself and his family in his home or leaving, Hale headed for the driveway.

    Hale had one gun on him when he began to drive away from his home.

    Second Amendment advocates
    seized on the incident as an example of why responsible gun ownership is important.

    Dubose and Rowe surrendered without Hale needing to draw his weapon and police arrived three minutes later to arrest them.

    "We ended up with the best scenario compared to every other family that was affected by this," Hale said.

    Christiana residents lauded Hale's courage.

    "When you mess around out here in the county, most of us here have carry permits and carry (weapons),” Holly Morelock said. “And it’s our job to protect our families and our homes.

    “They did what they had to do to protect everybody else around.”

    Bedford County resident Allison Smart said the incident is an example of "one of the reasons we need to be able to keep our guns.”

    John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, said Hale deserves credit for both being armed and ready to act and for showing restraint.

    Harris called Hale a hero "for helping stop potentially fleeing murderous felons. So the publicity is he's done a great thing. He used restraint. He didn’t just start a gunfight.

    "And from all that is being presented, (he) did what good citizens do."

    Even if a homeowner does not shoot, brandishing a firearm to defend your property is murky legal territory, experts said. Nashville criminal defense attorney Ben Raybin said the key question is whether a person has a "reasonable perception" that they are in danger.

    "You absolutely have a right to self defense in Tennessee to use a reasonable amount of force to defend yourself from a reasonable fear of bodily harm," Raybin said. "Just because someone is on your property does not create a reasonable belief that you are in danger."

    But, Raybin said based on the details of the confrontation, Hale acted appropriately by not firing his weapon.

    The fugitives, after firing at deputies a short time earlier, laid face down on Hale's driveway without incident when they surrendered.

    “So in this case, (Hale was) certainly wise to not actually shoot the people because he probably correctly perceived it was not necessary to actually fire,” Raybin said. “But from what I’ve seen (Hale) would have been in a situation to think that at least it was necessary to display his firearm.”

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    June 29, 2017

    State to seek death against Dubose, Rowe

    By Tia Lynn Ivey
    Morgan County Citizen

    The death penalty will be sought in the case against Donnie Russell Rowe and Ricky Dubose, the two Georgia prison inmates who allegedly shot and killed two correctional officers with their own weapons during an escape attempt from a prison transport bus traveling through Putnam County on June 13. The pair made national headlines as they evaded police for three harrowing days before finally being apprehended.

    Stephen Bradley, a district attorney for the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit, announced the state’s intention to seek the death penalty during a first appearance hearing at the Putnam County courthouse before Judge Brenda Trammell on Wednesday, June 21.

    “I have been asked dozens of times whether or not we are seeking the death penalty in this case, and I have told everybody we are going to be thorough and careful in this case, and we will,” began Bradley. “But I also want to carry our burden of being candid with this court and being fair with the defendants and tell them, that based on everything we know at this point, this is very clearly a death penalty case and we are preparing as if this is going to a capital trial. We fully expect that it will be.”

    Dubose, 24, and Rowe, 44, who were hauled into the courthouse wearing orange jumpsuits and shackles on their hands and feet, have each been formally charged with two counts of murder, one count of hijacking a motor vehicle and one count of escape.

    Both are charged with murders of Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue, the only two correctional officers on the prison transport bus at the time of the escape.

    During their 60 hours on the run, the two bounced between crimes while evading police, allegedly stealing a total of five cars, burglarizing at least three houses, and holding an elderly Tennessee couple hostage at gunpoint in their own home before leading police on a high-speed chase, during which Dubose and Rowe reportedly opened fire.

    Madison fell into the national spotlight after reports surfaced that Rowe and Dubose broke into a house on Cox Road and were spotted on foot in the streets and inside the Madison Family Dollar. Swarms of federal and state law enforcement agents joined local law enforcement in a massive manhunt throughout Madison and Morgan County. It was soon discovered, Rowe and Dubose stole another vehicle from a rock quarry in Buckhead, fleeing the area.

    By Thursday, June 15, the fugitives waved their shirts in surrender to police after a high-speed chase through Rutherford County, Tennessee. Shots were fired at police during the pursuit, which reached speeds exceeding100 miles-per-hour before the duo crashed their stolen vehicle and fled on foot. They were apprehended shortly after at a nearby residence where they surrendered after reportedly mistaking the homeowner’s vehicle for a police car.

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    Unlocked gate, loose guns and a toothbrush; In Georgia prison break, a series of errors

    The breakout spurred a massive three-day manhunt

    By Rhonda Cook
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    A series of security lapses allowed two dangerous inmates on a Georgia prison transport bus to free themselves from their chains and get to two correctional officers’ guns, which the prisoners then used to kill the two guards, according to a report released Friday.

    The report provides the first detailed accounting of how convicted armed robbers Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose allegedly killed officers Curtis Billue and Christopher Monica, both sergeants, before fleeing. The escape more than six weeks ago spurred a multi-state manhunt that ended in high-speed car chase with bullets flying.

    Investigators found that Billue and Monica made a series of deadly mistakes as they transported 33 inmates from two prisons to the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson on the morning of June 13.

    The lapses included:

    • The heavy mesh gate that separates officers from the inmates they were transporting was not locked.
    • The handcuffs of Rowe and Dubose were not “double locked,” which allowed Dubose to free his hands.
    • Twice the prisoners on the bus were left unattended. During one of those times, one of the inmates crept into the front compartment to fetch an officer’s lunch, their coffee and cigarettes.
    • Neither officer was wearing his gun as required. Instead, the Glocks were in a box behind the officers in the front compartment.
    • They were transporting inmates before daybreak, which violates the rules.
    • Inmates were not searched before they were put on the bus, so the officers did not find a toothbrush or a pen that Rowe used to dislodge the unlocked padlock and open the gate.
    • The inmates were moving freely about in the back area, and the officers didn’t seem to notice.
    • The video captured one of the inmates telling the others that the door was open and was not locked.
    • Neither officer was wearing a protective vest.
    • An internal reviews found, “There were no findings in insufficiency in training curriculum as presented, only non-compliance.”
    • Road noise and the engine made it impossible to hear what was happening in the inmate area.
    • Only one of 13 interior lights on the bus was working.
    • Investigators found no evidence that any corrections staff helped the two inmates plan or carry out the escape.

    The information came from interviews with inmates who were on the bus, as well as from video recordings made inside the bus. There was an external review by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Public

    Safety and the Department of Natural Resources. Corrections staff conducted an internal review, which include recommended changes.

    “I am determined not to allow an event like this to occur again,” Corrections Commissioner Greg Dozier said Friday.

    The brazen escape
    on Georgia 16 between Sparta and Eatonton left many in eastern and middle Georgia, as well as throughout the state and the Southeast, in fear.

    From early that Tuesday morning until the evening of the following Thursday, local, state and federal law enforcement searched for the two fugitives. Both were serving sentences that did not allow for parole.
    According to police, Rowe and Dubose stole a green Honda driven by a man who had pulled up behind the stopped bus.

    Later that day, the two allegedly broke into a house in Madison a little more than 20 miles away, taking clothes and food. On the second day of the manhunt Rowe and Dubose stole a pickup truck from a closed Morgan County business. A nearby surveillance camera recorded fuzzy images of them getting on Interstate 20 heading toward Atlanta.

    On Thursday, June 15, the third day of the manhunt, they ditched the truck near Lynchburg, Tenn. and stole a Mercury Cougar they found in a barn in Moore County, Tenn..

    They ditched the Cougar behind a mound of gravel beside a highway, just a few yards from the Shelbyville, Tenn., home where the two allegedly held an elderly couple hostage for about three hours.

    Their capture was set in motion when Rowe and Dubose left in the couple’s Jeep. The woman freed herself and called 911.

    Soon, a deputy spotted the stolen Jeep on Interstate 24 in an adjoining county, prompting a 20-mile chase during which shots were fired.

    Rowe and Dubose wrecked and fled through some woods, surrendering to a homeowner in a nearby clearing.

    District Attorney Stephen Bradley, the prosecutor in the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit which includes Putnam County, said the pair will be indicted in September and then he will announce that he intends to seek the death penalty against them.

    http://www.myajc.com/news/unlocked-g...57IjiGHjYeh0J/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Sheriff reveals which escaped inmate fired deadly shot on prison bus

    By Mark Winne
    WSB Atlanta News

    PUTNAM COUNTY, Ga. - Investigators say two inmates escaped from a prison transport bus in June and killed the two officers on board.

    The Putnam County Sheriff spoke to Channel 2's Mark Winne just after he testified in front of a grand jury Monday afternoon.

    Sheriff Howard Sills outlined and added considerable detail about the case against two state prisoners, Donnie Russell Rowe and Ricky Dubose, who are accused of killing Sgt. Curtis Billue and Sgt. Christopher Monica.

    Billue was a 10-year veteran of the Department of Corrections. The 58-year-old was also a father of two.

    “We know that justice will be served and based on what took place we know that based on what took place it was a calculated, evil, senseless act of murder that has forever changed the dynamics of our family,” said Denise Billue, Billue's sister.

    Monica, 48, worked for the department for eight years. He was married with two daughters.

    The sheriff said he made separate presentations to the grand jury for each suspect.

    “I brought forward the evidence that we have for indictment,” he explained.

    The sheriff says once inside, he outlined and added considerable detail about the case against the two men.

    Sills said the separate presentations are necessary when the death penalty is sought. He says district attorney Stephen Bradley plans to seek the death penalty for Rowe and Dubose if the proposed indictments against each are true-billed and the inmates are convicted.

    “Did you tell them who fired the fatal shots? I did. According to our investigation, who fired the fatal shots as far as the corrections officers were concerned. And that would be? That would be Ricky Dubose but I stress to, you, too that they were both acting as parties in the same criminal act,” Sills said.

    As the two suspects headed out of the courtroom after an earlier hearing, Winne fired a question at the pair about how they were going plead.

    Dubose seemed to say "not guilty" in response.

    “The one thing that has given us the strength to carry on is our faith. Our parents instilled that in us in an early age and we know that it’s the only thing that’s gonna sustain us, no matter what you go through if you have that faith it will get you through,” Denise Billue said.

    http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/putn...case/611255227
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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