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Escaped Inmate Richard Matt Died From Three Shots to Head: Autopsy
NBC NEWS ^ | June 19, 2015 | Elisha Fieldstadt

Posted on 06/29/2015 8:19:20 PM PDT by skeptoid

Escaped inmate Richard Matt was shot three times in the head and died from severe skull fractures and brain injuries, according to autopsy results released Sunday.

Matt, a convicted murderer, was shot and killed Friday by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer after nearly three weeks on the run while hundreds of authorities searched for Matt and David Sweat, who broke free from Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York on June 6.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1dontsearch; davidsweat; moreoldnews; newyork; richardmatt
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To: skeptoid

How do you get 3 head shots?

The first is going to knock the person over or cause a lot of movement.

Assuming its a multi-shot burst?


21 posted on 06/29/2015 8:47:09 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Ah, OK.

And now on to another point,

I’m sure her hubby won’t be hanging around when she gets out.


22 posted on 06/29/2015 8:47:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

“I’m sure her hubby won’t be hanging around when she gets out.”

Only if he wants to hang her, for real. But if she is incarcerated for umpteen years, he needs to just get a life and move on. F’her (or let the other inmates do it!)


23 posted on 06/29/2015 8:52:42 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Three shots and he still had a Head?

He had a ventilated head.

24 posted on 06/29/2015 8:53:17 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: skeptoid

“three shots to the head”

That’d do it.


25 posted on 06/29/2015 8:54:33 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Kickass Conservative

)mm at some distance? Feel sure the cops were just filling the sir with lead and were lucky with three shots. “Spray and pray” rather than marksmanship seems to have carried over from US army training where so many of these cops seem to come from.


26 posted on 06/29/2015 8:57:28 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: SaveFerris
Don’t think she thought out her plan too much.......

She wasn't the "think out" type.

She was more of the "put out" type.

27 posted on 06/29/2015 8:58:34 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: doorgunner69

I believe it was a “special” agent of the Border Patrol.
No,I don’t know what makes him”special”.Chomo only wanted NY Troopers on the hunt.


28 posted on 06/29/2015 9:00:35 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: PGR88

A triple tap is a lot more accurate when the head is resting on the ground for #2 and #3. Although I imagine a good shooter can get 3 shots off quick enough. Perhaps they’ve said, but I wonder if it was rifle shots with some time to take aim and shoot.

Not like the wounded guy that took off quick - so a shot to the torso makes more sense with that. It sounded like the second guy may have been shot with a pistol, as the officer was making his normal patrol.


29 posted on 06/29/2015 9:03:59 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: P-Marlowe

He was a zombie.

Triple tap.


30 posted on 06/29/2015 9:11:59 PM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: MaxMax

I see what you did there.

:)


31 posted on 06/29/2015 9:12:29 PM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: skeptoid
"Escaped inmate Richard Matt was shot three times in the head...."

Gee, let the riots begin on this CLEAR overreaction by the cops......uh, right?

32 posted on 06/29/2015 9:17:08 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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"Sometimes you gotta be sure"
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33 posted on 06/29/2015 9:18:28 PM PDT by Tula Git (There IS a coup in America and it's on track and almost complete.)
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To: PGR88
How do you get 3 head shots?

That's what I'm wondering, and that's why I'd like to know if the BP agent was was walking forward while firing a pistol. The article does say Matt was shot and killed Friday by a (singular) U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer

34 posted on 06/29/2015 9:19:29 PM PDT by skeptoid (I'm a sucker for pulchritrude)
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To: doorgunner69

Was just looking at some news. A tactical team went to investigate the cabin break-in. Heard rustling in the woods and a human cough. Confronted Matt in the woods. So I imagine that might have been lots of rounds fired when he didn’t give up. (He was armed with a 20-gauge shotgun).

The other cop was a trooper by himself - no rifle. He is a firearms instructor as well. Two shots to the torso. A witness said he heard “pop-pop”. Don’t know at what distance, but the trooper confronted the guy on the road, and he was shot in a field as he was making for the woods.

One of the articles had something like “trooper will not be charged for shooting Sweat....”!!!???


35 posted on 06/29/2015 9:20:14 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: skeptoid

And we are suppose to care?


36 posted on 06/29/2015 9:24:55 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: MediaMole

Good one!


37 posted on 06/29/2015 9:25:13 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fortheDeclaration
No-no.

I posted for myself and others who might find this account fascinating.

You aren't supposed to do anything AFAIC.

38 posted on 06/29/2015 9:35:35 PM PDT by skeptoid (I'm a sucker for pulchritrude)
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To: Steely Tom

>>>He had a ventilated head<<<

Cheesehead? Didn’t look like a Football Fan to me.


39 posted on 06/29/2015 9:36:48 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Erections have Consequences, just ask Obama's Parents. Oh wait, they're Dead.)
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To: skeptoid
Yes, I was being sarcastic regarding the article not to you.
40 posted on 06/29/2015 9:37:49 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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