“I locked the doors and turned out the lights and made ourselves as inconspicuous as I could. My husband stayed in bed,” Lillian Bondell said.

Southwick and Ashton Mink, Angela Mink and Jacquelin Mink had eluded officers in at least seven states.

Authorities said officers were preparing to use tear gas on the detached garage around 2:25 p.m., when Southwick and Angela Mink walked out and were arrested. Ashton and Jacquelin Mink ran out the back of the building, and gunfire was exchanged. Authorities said the two were wounded but their conditions were not released.

Authorities at first thought they were dealing with suspects in a video store robbery in nearby Dickinson until a license plate check of the car they were chasing revealed the suspects were also prison escapees. The four face charges in the video store robbery.

A Highway Patrol trooper chased the robbery suspects’ car toward Gladstone at speeds up to 100 mph, Henning and Stark County Sheriff Clarence Tuhy said. Shots were fired at the Highway Patrol trooper’s windshield but he was not hurt.

A rancher in Gladstone called soon afterward to report someone was in his garage, which was about 50 feet from his home.

“We put two and two together,” Tuhy said.

The rancher and his family got out of the house.

Henning said a rifle, handguns and camping equipment were found in the suspects’ car. Authorities used a robot to take a cell phone and cigarettes to the suspects. Later, “two of them gave up and two of them came out the side door shooting,” Tuhy said.

“Everybody is glad it turned out the way it did,” the sheriff said. “Fortunately, no officers or the public were hurt. Unfortunately, two people were shot, and that’s just part of our job. What are you going to do?”

Stark County Prosecutor Tom Henning said he expects to file robbery, attempted murder and conspiracy charges on Monday.

Southwick and Ashton Mink had escaped in Alabama on May 25, after the women hid in the woods outside the prison during a storm and cut the electric fence, authorities said. Southwick and Ashton Mink changed into a pair of uniforms normally worn by kitchen workers and were mistakenly allowed outside the prison, corrections authorities said. Seven employees at the privately owned prison were fired after the escape.

Southwick had pleaded guilty to murder and burglary in a slaying six years ago. Mink was serving time for attempted murder in a stabbing during a home invasion.