One of the Caribbean prison escapees accused of hijacking a retired American couple’s yacht was shot during his arrest on the island of St. Vincent, and the other two hid in bushes, according to local reports.

Details were revealed during Monday’s court appearance, when the judge ordered the three suspects – Ron Mitchell, 30, Trevon Robertson, 19, and Abita Stanislaus, 25 – to be sent back to Grenada “as soon as practicable.”

Robertson was shot by police after he allegedly tried to grab an officer’s gun, according to Searchlight and other local outlets.

He denied those accusations, reportedly telling the judge, “I never wrestle with no officer. The officer throw me on the ground and just shoot me on me foot, you understand? I never wrestle with no police, you understand?”

“Ralph and Kathy lived a life that most of us can only dream of,” Buro and Bryan Hendry said in a heartfelt message released to news outlets last week.

They sailed off the eastern coast of the United States on their yacht – called “Simplicity” – and “made friends with everyone they encountered, singing, dancing and laughing with friends and family.”

Investigators from Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines stand aboard the yacht “Simplicity,” which they say was hijacked by three escaped prisoners with two people aboard, now anchored at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coastguard Service Calliaqua Base, in Calliaqua, St. Vincent, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Authorities in the eastern Caribbean said they were trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard the yacht that was hijacked by the three escaped prisoners from Grenada. (AP Photo/Kenton X. Chance)

“That’s who Ralph and Kathy were and that’s how they will be remembered in our hearts,” they said. “We live in a world that at times can be cruel, but it’s also a world of profound beauty, wonder, adventure, love, compassion, caring and faith. 

“Our parents encompassed all those values and so much more.”

Authorities do not have any updates on the internal probe into how the prisoners escaped or the criminal investigation.

However, Buro and Bryan Hendry’s message focused on their parents as these issues unravel. 

Ralph Hendry, 66, and his wife, Kathy Brandel, 71, are “presumed dead” after prisoner escapees allegedly kidnapped them while fleeing authorities on the Caribbean island of Grenada. (Nick Buro)

“So many people have reached out with love and encouragement, sharing stories and anecdotes of their memories of Ralph and Kathy, and those stories are what we want them to be remembered by,” they said. 

“While the end of their life may have been dark, they brought light, and that light will never be extinguished from the hearts and minds of the people who knew, loved and cared so deeply about them.”

Fox News Digital’s Bonny Chu contributed to this report.