EATONTON, Ga. –– Unreleased video footage shows the details of how two Georgia inmates escaped from a prison transfer bus, killing two corrections officers and sparking a five day, multistate manhunt, according to Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills.

“This whole assault and both murders happened in a matter of five or six seconds,” Sills said in a recent in-depth interview with the Milledgeville, Georgia, Union Recorder.

On June 13, the escapees, Donnie Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, were traveling from Baldwin State Prison to Georgia Diagnostic and Class Prison near Jackson, with 31 other inmates. Rowe and Dubose had been cellmates at Baldwin State.

Sgt. Curtis Billue, 58, was driving the transport bus, which is equipped with a door to separate the inmates from the driver. At about 6:45 a.m., when the bus was traveling through Putnam County, Georgia, Rowe and Dubose forced themselves through the door, which was unlocked, according to Sills.

“Through that door, they immediately assault both officers and then there are several shots fired and each officer was shot multiple times,” Sills said.

Rowe and Dubose first attacked Billue and Sgt. Chris Monica, 42, with their fists, took the corrections officers’ guns, and shot and killed the two men, according to Sills.

Sills, a veteran sheriff, said he was the first person to step onto the bus when he arrived at the scene. Billue was slumped over in the driver’s seat, and Monica was sitting in a front passenger seat, both dead.

“There was a bullet hole in one of the window panes of the door,” Sills recalled, noting the door had four window panes. “The top left pane of glass was kicked out.”

Although all the inmates aboard the bus were reportedly shackled, including the two who escaped, Sills said the video shows one of the inmates kicking out the glass pane of the bus door. He was unable to tell which one it was, Sills said.

“At least one of them didn’t have on leg irons because he kicked out that pane of glass,” Sills said, emphasizing he was merely making an assumption. “I don’t know how he gets them off, but he gets them off.”

What the two inmates did on the bus happened “very quickly,” Sills said

“They go up to [the door], and once again, I’m going to tell you something, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005 — everybody is dead and they’re off the bus. It’s that quick,” Sills said.

Both victims were shot with 9 mm pistols, the same kind issued to Georgia corrections officers, which the escaped inmates took with them, Sills said.

Once off the bus, “You can see them run down the side of the bus,” Sills said. “But that’s all you can see.”

During a first appearance hearing before Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Brenda Trammell last Wednesday, District Attorney Stephen A. Bradley said the case against Rowe and Dubose merits the death penalty. Both are facing murder charges for the deaths of Billue and Monica.

Billy Hobbs of the Milledgeville, Georgia Union Recorder contributed to this story.