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U.S. NEWS Friday 16 June 2017

Reward to $130,000 in growing search for fugitive inmates

By KATE BRUMBACK escapees managed to
Associated Press get out of the secure com-
MADISON, Ga. (AP) — A partment. Department of
three-day search for two Corrections Commissioner
inmates sought in the killing Greg Dozier wouldn’t com-
of their guards on a prison ment on that part of the
bus in Georgia expanded investigation either. Both
on Thursday, with a sheriff said their immediate focus
saying the fugitives could is on finding the escaped
be halfway across the inmates.
country by now. Sills said there’s no visible
“We need the eyes and evidence — an apparent
ears really of anybody in reference to video from
this country to be on the a security camera on the
lookout,” Putnam County bus — showing that other
Sheriff Howard Sills said. inmates participated. And
The FBI is now promoting he praised the other in-
a reward for information mates for aiding the initial
leading to the arrest of search.
Donnie Rowe and Ricky “Yes, they have been in-
Dubose that has risen to terviewed,” Sills said. “They
$130,000 after contribu- This combo of undated photos provided Tuesday, June 13, 2017, by the Georgia Department of provided the most vital in-
tions from more law en- Corrections shows inmate Ricky Dubose, left, and Donnie Russell Rowe. A Georgia sheriff said formation at the most cru-
forcement agencies. officers were “desperately” searching Tuesday for the two inmates who somehow got through a cial time.”
“It’s not just because of gate inside a prison bus, killed two guards and got away. Authorities said the two
(Georgia Department of Corrections via AP)
the crime, it’s because the inmates overpowered
public is in grave danger,” Tuesday night, roughly 12 ing cars. We know they all involved, as well as law and killed Sgt. Christopher
Sills said. “These are dan- hours after they ransacked did a burglary. We know enforcement officers all Monica and Sgt. Curtis Bil-
gerous, seriously danger- a house 9 miles (14 kilome- they took food there. We over Georgia. lue early Tuesday on a bus
ous, vicious hoodlums that ters) away to gather food know of no great amount “It has become a nation- that should have been se-
need to be apprehend- and change from their pris- of money, but there may wide search,” said Special cured as it carried inmates
ed.” on uniforms. have been some money Agent David LeValley, who between prisons.
Authorities said the last sign Sills said the Honda Civic there the victim didn’t runs the FBI office in Atlan- The pair then carjacked a
of the two fugitives remains they carjacked at the killing know about,” the sheriff ta. driver who pulled up be-
the theft of a 2008 white scene was hidden in some said. Sills wouldn’t comment on hind the bus, and fled in his
Ford F-250 pickup truck woods, and they walked to The FBI, the U.S. Marshals whether the other 31 in- Honda Civic along state
with the Georgia tag BCX- the quarry from there. Service, and the U.S. Bu- mates left locked inside the Highway 16 in Putnam
5372 from a rock quarry. “They’re doing like most reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, bus with the slain guards’ County, southeast of At-
Sills said it was stolen late escapees do. They’re steal- Firearms and Explosives are bodies revealed how the lanta. q
Verdict in texting suicide trial to be announced Friday

By DENISE LAVOIE through dozens of text mes- on social media, in part, peared to delay his plan. death of another person
AP Legal Affairs Writer sages? because of the dozens of “I thought you wanted to when engaging in reckless
BOSTON (AP) — Or should he acquit her text messages Carter sent do this. The time is right and or wanton conduct that
Michelle Carter and Con- and risk sending a message Roy in the days before he you’re ready __ just do it creates a high degree of
rad Roy III are both sad fig- that Carter’s behavior was was found dead of carbon babe,” she wrote. likelihood of substantial
ures in a teenage tragedy less than criminal? monoxide poisoning in his In another text sent the day harm.
that ended with Roy killing Judge Lawrence Moniz be- truck parked in a Kmart Roy died, Carter wrote: Prosecutors have argued
himself and Carter charged gan deliberating Carter’s parking lot. “You can’t think about it. that Carter’s text messag-
with manslaughter. fate Tuesday in the jury- “You’re finally going to be You just have to do it. es support their claim that
A juvenile court judge now waived trial. A court clerk happy in heaven. No more You said you were gonna Carter caused Roy’s death
finds himself at the center said Thursday that the pain. It’s okay to be scared do it. Like I don’t get why by “wantonly and reck-
of a legal quagmire: judge will announce the and it’s normal. you aren’t.” lessly” helping him poison
Should he set a legal prec- verdict Friday in Bristol Ju- I mean, you’re about to Carter is accused of in- himself.
edent in Massachusetts by venile Court in Taunton. die,” Carter wrote in one voluntary manslaughter, Roy, 18, had a history of de-
convicting Carter of man- The case has been closely message. a charge that can be pression and had attempt-
slaughter for encourag- watched in the legal com- Her texts later became brought in Massachusetts ed suicide in 2012, taking
ing Roy to take his own life munity and widely shared more insistent after Roy ap- when someone causes the an overdose of Tylenol. q