2 officers killed, 2 inmates on run in Georgia

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"This is one continuous crime spree perpetrated by these two unsafe con men", Assistant District Attorney Sandra Matson said at trial.

They are armed with the correctional officers'.40 caliber pistols and considered risky. "Words do not adequately express our sorrow in losing Sergeant Christopher Monica and Sergeant Curtis Billue in the line of duty".

Sills, who was among the first officers at the crime scene, said the suspects "need to surrender before we find them". "Sandra and I mourn alongside their families and communities, and we offer our deepest sympathies to their loved ones", Deal said in the statement.

"We've offered assistance, but they said they had enough help", Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry said early Tuesday.

One suspect shot both guards, before the two carjacked a 2004 Honda Civic and escaped, the sheriff's office said.

Police are searching for two escaped inmates from a Georgia prison who reportedly killed two corrections officers.

Authorities are looking for Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe.

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The pair were being transported in a prison van along a densely-forested stretch of the road, near the town of Eatonton, 75 miles east of Atlanta.

"They were inside the caged area of the bus", he said. Teresa Slade, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office, said there were 27 other inmates on the bus when those two inmates overpowered the guards.

The guards were moving the inmates to a diagnostics center in Jackson, where their next placement was to be determined, Dozier said, adding that inmates do not know their transfer dates ahead of time.

The U.S. deputy attorney general has condemned the slayings of two Georgia prison guards during testimony before a Senate budget panel.

Rowe was being held for life without the possibility of parole for multiple armed robbery convictions in Bibb County from October 2001.

Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, hijacked the prison bus on Highway 16 near Eatonton, Georgia on Tuesday, June 133 while they were on work duty.

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