How it happened

4:28 p.m.

According to sheriff’s spokesman Mark Myers, Behlen’s hospital room was being guarded by one sheriff’s deputy, reports staff writer Augie Frost.

Behlen slammed the door shut and locked it, then opened the window and climbed outside, Frost says.

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