CLEVELAND, Ohio — Newly released video shows the moments a Cuyahoga County jail inmate escapes from a corrections officer and dashes through a busy Cleveland hospital filled with patients, staff and families.

It happened on July 22 at MetroHealth’s main campus.

According to the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Luther Tyes was taken to the hospital for a possible seizure.

Investigators said doctors at the hospital cleared Tyes to return to the jail where he was being held for a probation violation.

But video shows that as a deputy walked to get the car, Tyes stood up from a wheelchair, appeared to look back into the hospital, then ran away from the unarmed corrections officer watching him.

“This inmate was looking for an opportunity and he took it,” said Adam Chaloupka with the

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