Hero homeowner holds escaped Georgia inmates at gunpoint until arrests

Fox News ^ | June 16, 2017

[Ciaphas Cain]

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.

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.

[Pride in the USA]

What a great ending to this story.

[arthurus]

IThe cops wo showed up to collect the perps are as likely to be the recipients of any cash reward as the homeowner.

[arthurus]

MSM aren’t spinning. They are ignoring. ‘Police took them into custody, when they were seen trying to steal a car’ is the tenor of the little reporting there is.

[Prov1322]

http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/watch-captured-inmates-make-1st-court-appearance/no9owqWJXoyPJHOGSApB7L/

From this version...

Deputies said the inmates fired at them and wrecked the vehicle near mile marker 91 after the chase reached 100 mph.

They fled into the woods, ended up in a homeowner’s yard and tried to steal another vehicle.

But the homeowner noticed the men in his driveway and called a neighbor over to hold them at gunpoint until authorities arrived, Tennessee officials said.

The homeowner lived in a community of military veterans with many gun owners, Channel 2 reported.

The fugitives still had the guns of the slain Baldwin State Prison officers, identified by the Georgia Department of Corrections as Sgt. Curtis Billue and Sgt. Christopher Monica, officers said.

[riverdawg]

From the AJC story (no friend to the 2A):

“Tennessee officials credited two neighbors for holding Dubose and Rowe at gunpoint until they arrived. A homeowner, they said, noticed the men in his driveway and called a neighbor over to hold them at gunpoint.”

Of course, this important feature of the story is not highlighted.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Write that guy a check!

[Cementjungle]

Yes, I hope he gets the reward, maybe share a bit with the neighbor.

I would assume that its taxable, so he'll have to share a chunk of it with the government.

[jonno]

“A big metal what? “

Well, the home-owner obviously already has a big set of brass ones - anything else would be redundant.

[wita]

Ruthless killers attempting to steal a car. I’m not sure I would want them alive while I waited for the police to arrive. Brave soul.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

OMG these are two VERY UGLY DUDES, if this is what people in the prison system look like how in the HELL would ANYONE ever think they can be released and GET A JOB !!!!! REALLY?????

[Billthedrill]

And now those fun-loving boys will be returning to a warm welcome at prison. Do you suppose they’ll bake them a cake?

[armourenthusiast]

"A perfect example of a gun owner doing something positive. He should collect the reward money on top of all that."

He should collect the $130K.

[samtheman]

“Armed Citizen Uses Gun to Stop Violence Without Firing a Shot!”

Can’t wait to see that headline in the media; it’s gonna be great!

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Your sarcasm is sadly noted.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Not fer nuthin' but...I thought folks here would be interested in how MSN decided to report the capture of these two scumbags:

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two escaped inmates sought in the killings of two guards on a Georgia prison bus were captured Thursday in Tennessee after holding an elderly couple captive and leading police on a chase by car and foot, authorities said.

Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose were captured in Christiana, Tennessee, Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Nelly Miles said.

Police in Shelbyville, Tennessee, responded to a call about a home invasion, where Rowe and Dubose held an elderly couple captive and then fled in the couple's vehicle, Miles said. Officers responded and chased the pair. The inmates got into a wreck, left the vehicle and then led police on a foot chase before both men were taken into custody in the community of Christiana, she said.

Nowhere in this edited timeline is there any mention of the homeowner, his neighbor or the fact that these two suspects had been held at the point of a gun while awaiting arrest by LEOs as reported by Fox.

Effin' amazing. It seems "China Clipper" was very much correct.

[Grampa Dave]

Each day, thanks to the internet, we see why Dr John Lott’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime!”, might be the most important book for us and our country.

This armed citizen stopped and held at gun point, two very dangerous escaped criminals on his home streets.

We saw how the unarmed Brits in London were killed or injured because even the street Cops in London were unarmed when the recent stabbings and use of vehicles as weapons happened.

[from occupied ga]

For all the numbskulls people on FR who tell me how cool THEIR tats are:

HOW COOL IS THIS!

[riverdawg]

CNN, of all places, has a good description of the homeowners’ role in the fugitives’ capture and quotes the Rutherford Co. (TN) sheriff crediting the bravery of those homeowners:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/us/georgia-inmates-manhunt-capture/index.html

[Oatka]

I hope the pavement was hot. Too bad the authorities didn't have to hose their blood off the driveway.

Fine broth of lads. Likely they were just turning their lives around.

[from occupied ga]

GA has the death penalty, and I suspect that cop killing gets you on the list

[wardaddy]

Welcome to Dixie MFers!

Imagine in Massachusetts the homeowners would have handed over his BMW and wallet and daughter and most importantly his Starbucks macchiato card

I lived 25 miles due west

Christiana by 24 means the ridge line near Buchanon road by the Barrett Arms exit

Used to be a clear whiskey maker and some weed growers there

It’s gotten more populated

Just north of Bell Buckle and due South of Murfreesboro

Walking horse country too