Escaped convict Richard Matt was blitzed out of his mind on booze when killed by cops in June, authorities said Wednesday.
Matt, 49, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.18 percent — twice the legal limit — when he was fatally shot after three weeks on the run from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate Dannemora, toxicology tests show.
Someone with a BAC of .16 to .30 percent is considered severely impaired and would have difficulty maintaining balance and muscle control, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Matt had been hiding in a remote hunting cabin — where authorities found half-full bottles of cheap rum and grape-flavored gin — before being tracked down and killed.
He fled from Dannemora in a sensational escape along with fellow con David Sweat, 35, who was captured two days after Matt was killed.
Sweat told investigators that he and the overweight Matt bickered over his fellow escapee’s drinking while they were on the run.
Joyce Mitchell, who worked with the inmates at the Clinton tailor shop, has pleaded guilty to charges of aiding the pair by smuggling hacksaw blades and other tools to them.
Guards discovered the men missing June 6.