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Two murder suspects captured after jailbreak
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSPHENIX CITY, Alabama (CNN) -- Police found two murder suspects at a motel in Columbus, Georgia, three days after their escape from jail, an Alabama sheriff said. Johnny Earl Jones, 17, and Lamar Benton, 19, escaped from the county jail in Phenix City after overpowering a guard early Saturday. They stabbed him 15 times in the back with a "shank," Russell County Sheriff Tommy Boswell told CNN. Boswell described it as"a crude weapon made out of sharp wire." The guard is recovering at home, he said. The two took the guard's keys, gaining access to the front of the jail, where they overpowered another guard and took her keys to get out of the facility, the sheriff said. Jones is charged in connection with the death of a child he was babysitting, and Benton is charged in the rape and slaying of a 39-year-old woman, authorities said. Another prisoner who escaped with Jones and Benton had been recaptured earlier, Boswell said. Dog-tracking teams and helicopters using infrared sensors found him hiding in dense brush two miles from the jail. The three inmates had dumped their orange prison jumpsuits at an encampment of homeless people along the Chattahoochee River, where they picked up some civilian clothing, a top law enforcement official said. Phenix City is on the Alabama-Georgia border, across the Chattahoochee from Columbus. CNN's Rusty Dornin and Mike Phelan contributed to this report. 
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