[Daryn Kagan, Cnn Anchor:] We are going to go ahead and start with the situation in Colorado, beginning with the capture. The nationwide hunt for seven armed prison escapees in Texas is now over. The police have their men. The last two fugitives were taken into custody just hours ago. Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury surrendered peacefully. They did that after they gave an interview to a Colorado Springs television anchor. The two men had been holed up at a Holiday Inn. We are going to bring you parts of that interview that aired on Colorado television and here on CNN in just a bit. But first, let's go our Frank Buckley who is spent a long night in Colorado Springs, Colorado, following the latest on the situation. Frank, good morning.
[Frank Buckley, Cnn Correspondent:] Good morning, Daryn. The fugitives are in custody. The manhunt that began on December 13th is over. It ended after a six-hour long standoff at the Holiday Inn here in Colorado Springs, where the two fugitives were inside a room. They were discovered at about 10 o'clock last night. That's when negotiations began with them between the police. At some point, the police brought in a television anchor person, as you say, and the interview continued with him. They made a an arrangement in which each person would get to speak with the anchor person for five minutes. And then they gave themselves up. It they did, in fact the fugitives changed their appearance from their appearance that we had seen on the mug shots that had been circulated for quite some time. Both Patrick Murphy and Donald Newbury had it was believed to have they it was believed that they had done their best to try to change their appearance using hair dyes. And they, in fact Murphy talked about this during his interview with the television reporter, saying that the fugitives joked among themselves about how they looked different. They used hair dyes and used other methods to try to conceal their identities. Now, the two that are in custody, Murphy and Newbury, join the four others: George Rivas, the alleged ringleader of the group, Michael Rodriguez, Joseph Garcia and Randy Halprin, who are all in custody. A fifth person, Larry Harper killed himself, according to police, during the stand-off that occurred on Monday here in Woodland Park, just outside of Colorado Springs, about 20 miles away. One of the people who has reacted to what has happened is the mother of Aubrey Hawkins. He is the Irving police officer Irving, Texas, police officer who was killed during an armed robbery of an Oshman's Sporting Goods store in Irving, Texas. This was on Christmas Eve. It was believed that the fugitives were involved in that. And they stole, according to police, tens of thousands of dollars and a number of weapons. And during that armed robbery, Hawkins, who responded to the scene, was shot to death, shot 11 times, and then run over by a car. Hawkins' mother earlier responded to some of the comments made by one of the fugitives who talked during his interview about the fact that he wasn't able to get rehabilitation in a prison facility.
[Jayne Hawkins, Mother Of Slain Officer:] He's talking about rehabilitation in the prisons, and awe with him, you know. He wants all this rehabilitation. Then I suggest he go to work and not commit a crime and get in the prison system and expect us to educate them. They can go to work. They can seek financial aide. There are many ways to get an education without expecting the prison system to do it for them. And, you know, I mean, if they make one mistake and they are able to rehabilitated, I think our system will take care of that.
[Buckley:] So the fugitives are also saying, during their interview, that the reason they came to Colorado was completely a random choice. They said that they were driving up through a snowstorm from Texas, and they decided just to go to Colorado. First going to Buffalo, Colorado, then January 1st, according to police, they believe they arrived in Woodland Park. And Woodland Park, again, is there's an RV park, where they spent the next three weeks, between January 1st and January 27th, when the first arrests occurred Daryn.
[Kagan:] Frank, a couple of questions for you here. First, Officer Hawkins' gun, I understand that they found it with these two fugitives?
[Buckley:] That's well, we hadn't been told that the gun was found. Yesterday, we asked authorities if that gun had been recovered. We were told that, no, it hadn't been. In fact, we now know that after, I guess, the law enforcement officials have had a better opportunity to look at these weapons, we were told today that, in fact, Officer Hawkins'