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Cons in custody after deadly escape 
11:32 PM CDT on Monday, September 24, 2007
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Two prison inmates suspected of killing a female prison guard were captured Monday afternoon near Huntsville.
One suspect, John Ray Falk Jr., was captured shortly after the escape near a Wal-Mart.
Texas prison officials say the second suspect, Jerry Martin, was caught in a tree by lawmen on horseback using bloodhounds just before 2 p.m.
Martin, covered in tattoos, was wearing only shorts when he was taken into custody, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said. He did not resist arrest.
“He apparently believed that by shedding his clothing he could avoid the scent of the tracking dogs,” Lyons said. She said Martin did not appear to be hurt.
As deputies walked him into the Walker County Jail, Martin did not express regret or remorse.
“I don't have nothing left to lose,” Martin told 11 News reporter Jason Whitely in an exclusive interview.
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Jerry Martin was barefoot and wearing only shorts when he was caught in a tree.
Martin said he didn’t know what happened to the woman he hit.
According to TDCJ officials:
The two escapees and 74 other inmates were working in a field around 10:10 a.m.as six officers watched over them.
Martin and Faulk attacked two of the guards, including the victim, and took their weapons.
They ran next door to a city facility and stole a flatbed truck.
The female guard chased them on horseback and was killed while apparently trying to stop them from fleeing.
“They ran over the officer,” TDCJ Spokeperson Jason Clark said. “We can confirm she did die.”
The officer has been identified as 59-year-old Susan Canfield of Huntsville, a seven-year veteran of TDCJ.
Her husband, Charles, is a Houston police officer. The couple has three grown children.
The horse Canfield was riding survived the accident.
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Susan Canfield was killed while chasing the escapees on horseback.
The escapees later ditched the flatbed at a Kentucky Fried Chicken a few miles away.
That's when they carjacked a woman waiting in line outside a Guaranty Bank in Huntsville and stole her red pickup, according to police.
She was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hermann Huntsville where she was treated and later released.
Officers shot out the tires on the pickup, forcing the escapees to pull over and flee on foot.
"You could hear it, it was pop, pop, pop," said Mark LaBlanc, a witness. "It was loud..."
Soon after, Faulk was captured.
The manhunt for Martin involved officers on horseback, TDCJ tracking dogs and at least one DPS helicopter. Several law enforcement agencies joined in the search.
All Huntsville schools were on lockdown until Martin was in custody.
Martin was serving 50 years for two counts of attempted capital murder out of Collin County, according to Lyons.
He was sent to prison in 1997 after he fired at several Collin County deputies and state troopers during a standoff that followed a high-speed chase.
Officers were negotiating with Martin in a field when he fired at them. He was eventually taken into custody.
Falk, 40, has been serving a life prison sentence since July 1986 after being convicted of murder out of Matagorda County.
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Jerry Martin and John Ray Faulk, Jr.
Lyons said that they will at least face felony escape charges, but it hasn’t been determined yet what charges they’ll face in the death of the officer.
Lyons said it was “too early to say” if the escape was planned or spur of the moment.
Based on their good disciplinary records in prison, Martin and Falk were classified as minimum security inmates and assigned to do field work outside the prison under the supervision of officers.
“In this case, obviously, something went wrong,” Lyons said.
The Wynne Unit, established in 1883, is one of the oldest in the Texas prison system. It holds about 2,600 inmates of various custody levels. The unit is about 80 miles north of Houston and shares about 1,500 acres with two other prisons that straddle the main freeway between Houston and Dallas.
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