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Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker were apprehended without incident at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in Panama City at approximately 5:40 p.m. Saturday, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said.

“They came out with their hands up in the air,” U.S. Marshals Service Chief Inspector Frank Chiumento told ABC News. “They knew when they saw it on the news, their scheme was uncovered.”

Shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday, about 20 members of the task force surrounded the hotel and told Jenkins and Walker to come out. About a minute later, both men came out with their hands in the air and were taken into custody without incident.

When the two convicted killers emerged from room 227, where they had been holed up, they told officials “they were relieved that it was over,” Chiumento said.

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