Two Georgia inmates, Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe, escaped June 13 and are on the run after authorities say they disarmed and fatally shot two guards on a prison bus. (Reuters)Authorities in Georgia said they were searching for two inmates who killed a pair of prison guards and escaped early Tuesday morning while being transported through a rural area southeast of Atlanta. Both inmates are white men who records show had been held at Baldwin State Prison, a facility about 100 miles southeast of Atlanta, and they were being transported between Hancock State Prison and Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, which tracks line-of-duty deaths, the two Georgia guards are the third and fourth corrections officer killed in the line of duty this year. Steven R. Floyd, a veteran Delaware corrections official who died in February during a day-long hostage standoff at a state prison.

Source: Washington Post June 13, 2017 13:38 UTC