IN: VIDEO SHOWS INMATE ESCAPE AFTER DEPUTY KILLED
<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>July 2023</p>\n<p>Indianapolis, IN</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:17-:35</p>\n<p>Kerry Forestal</p>\n<p>Marion County Sheriff</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:39-1:50</p>\n<p>Kerry Forestal</p>\n<p>Marion County Sheriff</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p>NEW SURVEILLANCE VIDEO RELEASED SHOWS THE JULY MURDER OF A DEPUTY IN INDIANA. </p>\n<p>IN THE 14-MINUTE VIDEO....THE INMATE IS SEEN USING THE WAIST CHAIN ON HIS HANDCUFFS TO CHOKE DEPUTY JOHN DURM TO DEATH. </p>\n<p>RICHARD ESSEX HAS MORE ON WHAT THE INMATE DID AFTER THAT. </p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>DEPUTY JOHN DURM PARKED THE JAIL TRANSPORT VAN LIKE HE HAD DONE A HUNDRED TIMES BEFORE, WENT AROUND BACK TO LET INMATE ORLANDO MITCHELL OUT OF THE VAN.</p>\n<p>DURM TURNED HIS BACK TO CLOSE THE VAN DOOR, MITCHELL ATTACKED. </p>\n<p>WE ARE NOT GOING TO SHOW YOU THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO MEN, IT LASTED FOR TWO MINUTES.</p>\n<p>Kerry Forestal, Marion County Sheriff: "I want to make it clear that there is one person at fault here, some speculated that the fault lies in understaffing. Some say it is defective equipment or even complacency. It wasn't understaffing that killed John Durm, it was it wasn't faulty equipment that killed him, it was Orlando Mitchell."</p>\n<p>THE VIDEO SHOWS MITCHELL TAKING KEYS FROM DEPUTY DURM, WHICH HE USED TO UNLOCK THE HANDCUFFS AND START THE JAIL TRANSPORT VAN. </p>\n<p>MITCHELL WASTED NO TIME MAKING A RUN FOR IT. </p>\n<p>A CUMBERLAND POLICE OFFICER SPOTTED MITCHELL BEHIND THE WHEEL AND SOUNDED THE ALARM. </p>\n<p>THE OFFICER ALSO FOUND AN UNRESPONSIVE DEPUTY DURM AND SUMMONED FOR HELP. </p>\n<p>IN JUST A MATTER OF SECONDS, CAMERAS AT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER RECORDED MITCHELL DRIVING THE VAN RIGHT THROUGH THE SECURITY GATES. </p>\n<p>MITCHELL RACED SOUTH AWAY FROM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER TOWARDS PROSPECT STREET, JUST AS TWO MARION COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES STARTED AFTER HIM. </p>\n<p>MITCHELL CRASHED THE VAN AND WAS QUICKLY PUT BACK INTO HANDCUFFS.</p>\n<p>ONE BIG UNANSWERED QUESTION: HOW ORLANDO MITCHELL WAS ABLE TO PARTIALLY FREE HIMSELF FROM HIS BELLY CHAIN?</p>\n<p>VIDEO FROM EARLIER IN THE DAY SHOWS MITCHELL WITH THE CHAIN AROUND AS HE WENT TO AND ARRIVED AT ESKENAZI HOSPITAL.</p>\n<p>HOSPITAL VIDEO SHOWS HIM FIDGETING WITH ANKLE CUFFS.</p>\n<p>THERE IS NO VIDEO CAMERAS INSIDE THE JAIL TRANSPORT VANS.</p>\n<p>SHERIFF FORESTAL SAYS IT APPEARS THE HANDCUFFS AND CHAINS HAD BEEN PUT ON PROPERLY.</p>\n<p>Kerry Forestal , Marion County Sheriff: "But as you put that chain around, you can fatten yourself up to try and make it so later it will be loose. we don't know that just in viewing it appears they were put on properly."</p>\n<p><b>--TAG</b>--</p>\n<p>SHERIFF FORESTAL SAYS NONE OF THE EQUIPMENT FAILED, THE HANDCUFFS AND CHAINS USED WERE IN PROPER WORKING ORDER. </p>\n<p>THE SHERIFF BELIEVES THAT ORLANDO MITCHELL SIMPLY SLIPPED OUT OF THE CHAINS.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>INDIANA INMATE DEPUTY CRIME </p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>