Inmate convicted of murdering Georgia jail guards lifeless from suicide in jail

JACKSON, Ga. – A prisoner who was convicted of murdering two Georgia jail guards has taken his personal life whereas awaiting his execution.

Officers with the Georgia Division of Corrections says officers discovered Ricky Dubose unresponsive in his cell on the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Jail in Jackson, Georgia Sunday afternoon.

Regardless of makes an attempt by Emergency Medical Companies, Dubose was pronounced lifeless shortly earlier than 6 p.m. Sunday.

The Georgia Division of Corrections and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will conduct an investigation into Dubose’s dying.

The inmate’s dying comes lower than two weeks after a decide sentenced him to dying for his roles within the homicide of corrections officers Curtis Billue and Christopher Monica whereas aboard a jail transport bus in 2017.

Prosecutors accused Dubose and fellow prisoner Donnie Rowe of fatally capturing Monica and Billue whereas escaping from a jail switch bus southeast of Atlanta. 

Safety cameras on the bus recorded the violent escape whereas roughly 30 different prisoners witnessed the killings from the again of the bus. Dubose and Rowe overpowered the officers, stole their weapons and shot them earlier than escaping. 

The 2 inmates then fled within the stolen Honda Civic and drove about 25 miles north to Madison, the place they ransacked a house, stealing meals and garments and leaving their jail uniforms behind.

That evening, about 12 hours after the house housebreaking, the pair stole a Ford pickup truck from a rock quarry about 9 miles from the burglarized house when the path had gone chilly.

The fugitive inmates had been arrested in Tennessee days later after one other house invasions and a chase on Interstate 24. The 2 males had been discovered by one other house owner whereas allegedly attempting to steal his automotive.  The person held the 2 at gunpoint with a neighbor he known as for assist till the sheriff’s division might get there to arrest the fugitives.

Each escapees had been serving sentences for armed theft and different crimes. The Division of Corrections mentioned Rowe, 48, had been serving life with out parole since 2002, and Dubose, started a 20-year sentence in 2015.

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