Two prison guards are dead after being shot and killed by prisoners early this morning (Tuesday, June 13, 2017) in Putnam County, Georgia. The Putnam County Sheriff’s office says two prisoners being transported on a bus were able to overpower the guards before killing them and escaping. The shooting happened on Highway 16 West of Sparta near Eatonton. They are believed to be traveling in a 2004 Honda Civic 4 door with Georgia license plate RBJ660 and grass green in color. It was carjacked shortly after the shooting. The suspects are armed with the officers’ .40 caliber pistols. The US Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is involved. Police say Ricky Dubose (W/M 6’1 140 pounds) and Donnie Russell Rowe (W/M 6’1 181 pounds) are the suspects. Dubose has brown hair and blue eyes. He is serving a 20 year sentence for armed robbery, aggravated assault and theft by taking from a 2014 case out of Elbert County, Georgia. In August of 2010, he was charged with several fraud and theft charges in Madison County, Georgia. He also had a robbery charge in Gwinnett County, Georgia in that same month. Rowe has brown hair and blue eyes. He was in prison for armed robbery, possession of a firearm during a crime and aggravated assault. He was serving a life sentence with no parole from a 2001 case in Bibb County, Georgia. Both were being housed at Baldwin State Prison. Baldwin State Prison, where they were both housed in Hardwick, Georgia is a medium security prison built in 1976 that houses adult male felons. It has a capacity of 925 inmates.