Here’s a feel good story for the week. Two inmates who escaped from a Georgia prison this week were captured by an armed civilian who held them at gunpoint until the authorities arrived.
FOX News reported:
Hero homeowner holds escaped Georgia inmates at gunpoint until arrestsA 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.
Bre Payton has more at The Federalist.
Here’s a video report from the Associated Press:
Even CNN was forced to commend the bravery of the armed homeowner:
The bravery of a homeowner put an end to the three-day long manhunt, Fitzhugh said.The inmates had run through the woods to a home on Pruitt Road, near the rural community of Christiana.”The homeowner was alerted somehow, he looked outside and saw the suspects trying to steal his vehicle,” Lt. Bill Miller from the Tennessee Highway Patrol said late Friday.The homeowner called his neighbor and both men, each armed with a gun, confronted the fugitives.Having lost their weapons in the crash, Dubose and Rowe surrendered, authorities said.”I can’t say enough about the bravery of the homeowner, and what they took on, the wherewithal to call us and give us the information so we could get over there and apprehend these two subjects,” Fitzhugh said.
Contrary to the left’s constant protest, there really are good guys with guns.
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