Christopher Chris James Monica, 42, a sergeant with the Georgia Department of Corrections, was killed in the early morning hours of June 13, 2017, in Putnam County, Georgia. He and fellow sergeant Curtis Billue were transporting 33 inmates on a state prison bus along Route 16 between Eatonton and Sparta when two inmates got through an unlocked gate at the front of the bus and overpowered the officers.

The inmates, identified as Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe, disarmed the officers; Dubose is reported to have used one of the officers’ handguns to shoot both sergeants, killing them. Dubose and Rowe then fled, took the officers’ weapons and carjacked a nearby vehicle, triggering a multistate manhunt that ended in the suspects’ capture a few days later in Tennessee after a vehicle pursuit and an attempted vehicle theft.

Did anyone in the area see the bus on Route 16 that morning or have information about how the inmates got through the unlocked gate?