Two Tennessee men are being hailed as heroes for helping authorities capture a pair of murderous fugitives — by holding the duo at gunpoint until deputies arrived.

One man spotted the tattooed convicts, Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose, darting into his home and trying to steal his car on Thursday, CNN reported.

So he called his neighbor — and they held the tattooed pair at gunpoint until police arrived. The homeowners have not yet been identified.

Both fugitives — who authorities said killed two prison guards in order to escape — lost their weapons in an earlier crash, so they surrendered, authorities told the station.

“I can’t say enough about the bravery of the homeowner, and what they took on, the wherewithal to call us and give us the information so we could get over there and apprehend these two subjects,” Rutherford County Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh told CNN.

Before their taste of freedom ended, Rowe and Dubose held an elderly couple hostage, officials told FOX 17 in Nashville.

The fugitives stole the couple’s car and took off — but the couple managed to break free, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation told the station.

“Somehow the couple had the wherewithal to break free and notify authorities, and that was absolutely critical,” TBI spokesman Josh Devine told the news outlet. “Law enforcement was immediately able to immediately start pursuing these individuals.”

Rutherford County deputies then picked up the chase — which lasted about 10 miles, Lt. Bill Miller with the Tennessee Highway Patrol told FOX 17. The suspects fired numerous rounds at officers during the chase before they crashed and fled into the woods.

Both Rowe and Dubose were booked into the Rutherford County Jail and will be extradited to Georgia.

They were being hunted in the Tuesday killings of two guards whom they overpowered, disarmed and shot to death on a prison bus southeast of Atlanta, authorities said.

Baldwin State Prison transfer sergeants Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue were slain. Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills called both Rowe and Dubose “dangerous beyond description.”