The homeowner on Pruitt Road saw Donnie Rowe, 43, and Ricky DuBose, 24, attempting to steal a auto from his home.
This photo provided by the Elbert County Sheriff's Office taken on October 13, 2015 shows inmate Ricky Dubose.
The trooper said the homeowner looked outside and saw the two allegedly trying to steal his vehicle.
'How they got through the locks and things up to that area I do not know'.
The two men had been on the run since early Tuesday, when they are accused of having killed Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the two officers killed and with all law enforcement involved in the pursuit of the escaped felons", Powers said.
"I've worked in law enforcement in this state in some capacity for 44 years, and I can tell you today, there has never been a reward that large", Sills said.
"The selflessness and courage of these two fearless souls will not be forgotten, nor will their sacrifice and service", Deal said in an emailed statement.
Authorities have said Rowe and Dubose overpowered and disarmed the two guards as they were transporting 33 inmates between prisons.
People in the North Country are very familiar with the fear being felt by Georgia residents because of the 2015 escape of two convicted murderers from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.
Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Greg Dozier said in a news release that the pair "will be brought to justice swiftly for their heinous crime against our Officers".
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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.
Authorities said the last sign of the two fugitives remains the theft of a 2008 white Ford F-250 pickup truck with the Georgia tag BCX-5372 from a rock quarry several miles away from where they fled the bus in Putnam County, Georgia.
The pair were stopped after a vehicle chase in Tennessee.
Nathan Deal said in a tweet Thursday evening that the two men were taken into custody after a auto chase.
Authorities say they have captured two escaped inmates wanted in the slayings of two Georgia prison guards.
Donnie Rowe, 43, and Ricky DuBose, 24, were captured in Tennessee after a vehicle chase, authorities confirmed.
"Early Tuesday morning, a Georgia Department of Corrections bus was traveling through Putnam County, and at that time two prisoners overpowered the two officers operating the bus", Sills told more than two-dozen reporters covering the story that has gained national attention.
Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said Thursday that the reward for information on the fugitives had been increased to $130,000.
Sills, who is leading the double-murder investigation with assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, as well as the FBI and many other agencies, explained how the corrections officers met their deaths.
Monica, 42, and Billue, 58, were both transfer sergeants at Baldwin State Prison.
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