Ricky Dubose is dead, an apparent suicide at the state prison in Jackson. Dubose, from Madison County, was on a prison bus when he and another man killed two state Corrections officers during a 2017 escape in Putnam County. Dubose was serving a prison sentence for an armed robbery in Elbert County at the time of those murders. He and Donnie Rowe were recaptured in Tennessee days after the shootings. Rowe was tried and sentenced to life for the murders in Putnam County; Dubose received a death sentence after his conviction earlier this month. The GBI is investigating his death, which was reported last night.
From WSB TV…
Ricky Dubose is believed to have committed suicide after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia.
Last week, a jury of his peers unanimously sentenced Dubose to death.
Dubose was recently convicted and sentenced in the June 2017 shooting deaths of Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue.
Dubose, 29, was already serving a 20-year sentence for a 2015 armed robbery and assault in Elbert County when he escaped.
He had been in prison earlier, as well, officials said.
Dubose was pronounced deceased by the coroner at the facility at 5:56 p.m. GDC, in conjunction with the GBI is conducting an investigation into the death, as standard procedure.