Curtis Billue, veteran murdered
On Tuesday, two Georgia inmates, Donnie Russell Rowe and Ricky Dubose, overpowered their guards, Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue while the prioner were being transferred. Rowe and Dubose disarmed and murdered the guards. They’re still on the loose in Georgia.
Billue was an infantry officer before he began working for the Georgia prison system in 2007, according to WSBTV;
Billue was 58 and is survived by his father, five sisters, two brothers and two sons, said Jim Green, an attorney who’s speaking for the Billue family.
“Officer Billue’s family asks for prayers for all of those who are now placing their own lives at risk to bring these men to justice and asks anyone who has information that may assist in apprehending these perpetrators to please contact law enforcement,” Green said in an email.
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Rest in peace, Sir.
I pray that the LEOs who finally corner these scumbags all come out unharmed. I pray the scumbags, however, die without harming anyone else.
“I pray the scumbags, however, die without harming anyone else.”
Painfully would be a plus.
Amen!
If you add slowly and painfully to your statement GB, I agree… And I hope the prison system re-evaluates their procedures, to see where the failure was that allowed this to happen, and makes changes to ensure that it never does again. RIP to both of the guards
Chain-bus duty is never safe. I’m not sure if they call them chain-buses in GA, but we do in TX. Anything I can say is pure speculation based on what I know of how the Texas prison system works, but if the GA system is similar to ours, here are a couple of things that could have gone wrong. Chain buses are refurbed old school buses with add-ons such as heavy metal mesh welded over the windows (outside), a heavy-wire or mesh barricade set up just inside the back door with a jump seat for a guard between the door to the bus and the door through the cage to the passenger compartment, and another heavy-wire/mesh barricade set up just behind the driver with a door there. The entire set-up is installed and maintained using convict labor in a mechanic’s shop, overseen by a free world supervisor. Time between maintenance can be a factor – where something is wearing out and they are trying to get on the schedule for repairs/refurbishment. Also intentional sabotage by the inmate laborers missed by the supervisor. If a tool or something was left on the bus which they could use as a pry bar, they could have gotten the cage open. I don’t know what the rules & regs are for GA chain-buses, but they may not have had leg shackles and arm restraints on them. A combination of wear-and-tear, poor maintenance and/or poor workmanship (intentional or not) could allow the inmates to get out of their cage and to the guards. I don’t know how many inmates were on the bus (just the two?) but the attack would be sudden and vicious (one guy was a lifer – what does he have to lose?) and unexpected. One guard driving and you’re left with one guard to protect them from two highly motivated and vicious criminals. The reason I didn’t add “slowly and painfully” to my prayer is because I want those guys so thoroughly and completely dead quickly before they have a chance to hurt anyone else. Slowly and painfully doesn’t do that.… Read more »
Good to know, and yeah, that’d work GB, thanks for the reply!
In the cop and CO business, you just never know when the shit is going to hit the fan. Routine day, then you’re fighting for your life.
My cousin was a CO in NYC. Almost was killed by an inmate. Last thing he remembered thinking before the attack was “Hmmm, this clown is walking awfully fast.”
Next thing he remembers he was in the hospital.
It doesn’t take long and it doesn’t take much.
I’ve seen x-rays of a #2 pencil embedded full length through the eye socket and into the brain of a CO.
Trying to keep situational awareness in a day-in day-out job of being around inmates – who can be quite personable until they decide to kill you – is tough. We lost one CO last week in Texas during a use-of-force.
Plus, due to the state of the legal system, the COs have to have a video camera running during any confrontation with a problem inmate to protect themselves from accusations of unnecessary use of force…
And knowing that those guys have 24/7 to exercise and practice their moves for when they are hands on the wall, feet spread. They are stronger, faster, meaner than I am. Any fight would, of necessity, be to the death.
Not fun.
I should say the CO lived – but could not return to work due to the brain damage.
This is just too sad.
And those two will be on the run for a while, unless someone spots them from a distance or some farmer saw their mug shots, which were on the evening news where I am, and decides that two dead thugs are better than two live thugs.
RIP, Sgt. Curtis Billue.
As for the perps… not so much.
Amazing Grace – bag pipes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGuhfBk5xk
I bet nobody here can that hear that without getting all teary-eyed.
Nope, not here.. it takes about 3 notes…
Hate that damn song…mainly because of the associations.
“Flowers of the Forest” is the proper dirge for funerals:
This should never have happened, one way or another. Prayers for the murdered guards and condolences to their families. And when the shitbags are found, shoot early and shoot often.
“:And when the shitbags are found, shoot early and shoot often.”
And a nice shot to the nuts would be in order.
While they are still alive and conscious, barely.
Fair winds and following seas, Sergeants.
One can only hope they wind up in that Florida jurisdiction where the sheriff was asked why a cop-killer was shot 47 times, said “because we ran out of bullets”
Rest now in peace, sir. Prayers for your family and for the family of your associate. May they all make peace with this some day.
Clearly, Curtis Billue found satisfaction in serving the greater public good. We are grateful for him and all who serve. Thank you.
RIP.
To hell with the system, those perps need to be bound up in barbed wire and dragged down a gravel road until there’s nothing left of them.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/15/georgia-manhunt-escaped-inmates-accused-killing-guards-arrested-in-tennessee.html
caught em
Feel-good story of the day: A homeowner held them at gunpoint until the cops could come get them:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/16/hero-homeowner-holds-escaped-georgia-inmates-at-gunpoint-until-arrests.html
Every day thousands of LEOs of all types go in harms way for us. They even rarely have a name or face unless something such as this happens.
RIP, Brothers. Thank you for your service.
Sad this happens to a Cav unit I was with a week after coming home in 2010
https://www.odmp.org/officer/20382-deputy-sheriff-ian-michael-deutch
Damn spell check doesn’t work
Sad this happened to a great NCO back in 2010 the link above is good
Spent a year in one of the nastiest places in afganastan with more then out me oh shits
Then this happened a week or so after getting home
Rest Well brothers
You will never be forgotten
Salute
Two US inmates who were on the run since Tuesday after shooting dead two prison officers have been captured, officials say.
Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose were seized in the state of Tennessee.
The men overpowered the guards as they were transported by bus to another facility in the state of Georgia.
This triggered a massive nationwide manhunt, with the authorities warning that the public was in “grave danger” because the inmates were armed.
On Thursday, officials said the two men were in custody following a car chase, without providing any further details.
On Tuesday, police said Rowe and Dubose, who were both serving time for armed robbery at Baldwin State Prison, had taken control of a prison transport bus on Highway 16 – between the towns of Sparta and Eatonton.
“They were inside the caged area of the bus,” Sheriff Sills said at a press conference. “How they got through the locks and things up to that area I do not know.”
The prisoners “overpowered” the guards and “they then disarmed them and one of the subjects shot and killed both guards”, according to a bulletin issued by the Putnam County Sheriff’s office.
Correctional officers Christopher Monica, 42 and Curtis Billue, 58, were both killed, the Georgia Department of Corrections confirmed.
The authorities described the fugitive as “dangerous beyond description”.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40298146