Speculation had grown that Sweat had eluded the hundreds of law officers in the manhunt.
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A spokesperson for Senator Chuck Schumer has confirmed that David Sweat was shot by police and is injured.
“At approximately 3:20 pm on June 28, a member of the New York State Police spotted a suspicious man walking down a roadway in the town of Constable”, police said Sunday in a statement.
D’Amico says Sgt. Jay Cook was by himself when he shot and wounded Sweat after the fugitive refused a command to stop.
D’Amico said at a press conference Sunday that Sweat was treated at the scene and transported to Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that the 35-year-old prisoner’s condition was stable but that investigators had not had the opportunity to interview him yet.
“You never want to see anyone lose their life”, Cuomo said, but warned of Sweat’s danger.
She learned that the authorities had cornered Sweat on her neighbor’s property. The investigation is ongoing to find out who was involved in the escape, Cuomo said.
Sweat will be charged with burglary, escape, as well as other charges.
The elaborate breakout was the first at the maximum-security prison in 150 years. “Anyone who we find who was culpable and guilty of cooperating in this escape will be fully prosecuted”.
In the end, the escapees claimed no new victims.
An ambulance, believed to be carrying the escaped convict, is escorted by N.Y. “They were killers… We couldn’t tolerate them being on the loose”.
A convicted killer who escaped with another inmate from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York was hospitalized after being shot and captured Sunday by police, authorities said. When Cook realized Sweat was heading for a tree line, he fired two shots, hitting Sweat in the torso. They got about 30 miles away in three weeks.
Sweat was reportedly shot twice by a New York State Trooper (well done!) but survived the encounter to be taken to a local hospital in Malone. I said to Sgt. “He wasn’t sleeping in any cave or anything like that for three weeks, that’s for sure”.
“We did have difficulty tracking so, you know, it was fairly effective in that respect”, D’Amico said.
Prosecutors allege that she gave the men power tools that allowed them to saw through a steel cell wall before bashing a hole through a brick wall and crawling through.
U.S. officials have charged prison worker Joyce Mitchell with aiding the two inmates in their escape.
David Sweat, left, and Richard Matt escaped June 6 after using tools that had been hidden in hamburger meat.
David Sweat was one of three men arrested after 36-year-old Deputy Kevin Tarsia of the Broome County Sheriff’s Office was fatally shot on the Fourth of July in 2002 in the town of Kirkwood, near the New York-Pennsylvania border outside Binghamton. Tarsia on July 4, 2002.
But on Sunday, a new round of DNA tests came back on the pepper shaker that matched Sweat.
Matt had been serving a sentence of 25 years to life for torturing, killing and dismembering his ex- boss in 1997.
More than 1,200 searchers remained focused intensely on 22 square miles (56 sq. kilometers) of thick forests and heavy brush around where Matt was killed. Whatever the cost, Cuomo said, there was “no doubt, in my opinion, that it’s worth it”.
Authorities expressed hope that Sweat, now on his own, would be captured after finally succumbing to the stress of tiny sleep, scant food and biting bugs.
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FILE – In this Wednesday, June 24, 2015, file photo, Law enforcement officers walk along a road before going into the woods near Mountain View, N.Y., as the search continued for Richard Matt and David Sweat, two escaped prisoners from Clinton Correctional Facility.
