Two Georgia inmates who killed their guards and escaped from a prison bus before rampaging across the US have been captured in Tennessee.
Donnie Russell Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, were caught on Thursday in Christiana, Tennessee, after taking an elderly couple hostage in their home, police claim.
They then stole the couple’s truck and took police on a car chase, crashed the truck and continued the pursuit on foot before being caught, Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Nelly Miles said.
Ricky Dubose (left), 24, and Donnie Russell Rowe (right), 43, were caught on Thursday after their shocking Tuesday escape from a prison bus, in which they killed two guards
On Thursday, around 2:30pm they entered the home of an elderly couple in the city and held them at gunpoint, CBS 46 reported.
‘They wrestled with the man and took control of him,’ said Bedford County Sheriff Austin Swing. ‘They said they put guns to both of their heads.’
The convicts said they would be dead within 24 hours, the hostages later told police.
They held the terrified couple for three hours, until they decided to go on the run again.
The men initially wanted to make the elderly woman drive as their hostage, but when her car failed to start they stole the couple’s Jeep instead.
They were spotted within an hour, resulting in a potentially deadly chase of up to 100mph down the Interstate 24.
During the chase, the prisoners – who had stolen guns from the elderly couple, in addition to the pistols they had taken from the prison guards – allegedly fired shots at the cops before crashing their vehicle.
They then ran off on foot but were stopped at a home on Pruitt Road in Christiana, where they gave themselves up to police.
Traffic will be diverted on Interstate 24 east in Rutherford County until about 11pm while police process the scene, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.
Rowe was serving life without parole when he and Ricky Dubose somehow escaped from a prison truck cage, killed two guards and fled with their pistols early Tuesday.
Dubose, who has elaborate tattoos on his face and neck, began a 20-year sentence in 2015.
Both have a long list of crimes to their name, including armed robbery – and have only racked up more in the last few days.