Fox covering this. if CNN et al cover it as all it will be a blip because guns in the hands of citizens can’t be a good thing.
A 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.
Had a similar incident happen near my town several weeks ago. Two perps broke into a house and killed the occupant (ultimate reason not known). As they were sneaking thru the neighbor’s yard to get away, the neighbor approached them with a 12 gauge shotgun, made them lie face down on the ground, and called the sheriff’s office to send deputies while covering them with the shotgun. The sheriff’s department gave him accolades for his actions.
Its refreshing to see accounts of civilians with firearms making a positive difference in today’s media…
Nope, heard on the radio the GA agency offering the reward has some bullshit excuse, something along the lines of “It was law enforcement who ultimately took them into custody”. Well no shit Sherlock! Something tells me this may change when it’s all said and done…
Also, Christiana is where Ronnie Barret’s factory and gun shop (The Outpost Armory) is located. Been there several times.
Homeowner didn’t have to draw his gun, the two scumbags just surrendered. They ran out of bullets shooting at the police during the car chase. They probably realized they better give up or they will get shot.
Gotta love Tennessee! Call the neighbor and posse up! Those escapes are lucky that those two weren’t hillbilly versions of the shop owners in Pulp Fiction.
Their lives will be miserable, regardless of the facility they go to. Even the most upright correctional officers will do everything legally and ethically possible to make those two’s lives miserable. I hope.
Weird situation. If I follow the story correctly, the criminals were previously armed with weapons that they took from the guards they killed but lost them in a car wreck? Is this correct?
The guy interviewed mentioned that he had loaded every gun in his house after getting a call that these guys were in the area. Then he saw them climbing over a barbed wire fence a few hundred yards behind his house and had the choice of between getting in his car and leaving or locking himself and his daughter in the panic room in his house. The fact that he had something he referred to as a panic room indicated he had given some forethought having to defend himself in his home.
Also, the guy interviewed mentioned that he had another car–a truck with a loaded shotgun in it and the keys in it in the front of his house that he was hoping that the criminals would not go to. Not a very good idea–especially when you are worried about escaped killers in the neighborhood.
This was separate from the car that he was in that he said resembled a police car.
It sounds like he really lucked out. From what I gathered of his attitude–and I could be totally wrong–he did not seem like he was ready to go Doc Holiday if he needed to.
To bad he didn’t have a carbine with some 1x4 glass . . . easy pick’ns for several hundred yards out.
But props go to him for at least having the forethought to; own multiple guns, have a panic room, defend his daughter, and his home instead of “escape out the back” and let the savages do as they please.