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| New York prison escape: Second escapee David Sweat in police custody after manhunt - reports | New York prison escape: Second escapee David Sweat in police custody after manhunt - reports |
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| Escaped New York state prison inmate David Sweat is in custody after being shot by police near the Canadian border, according to media reports on Sunday. | Escaped New York state prison inmate David Sweat is in custody after being shot by police near the Canadian border, according to media reports on Sunday. |
| Convicted murderer Sweat escaped from Dannemora prison in New York earlier this month along with Richard Matt, who was shot dead on Friday by officers when they say he failed to comply with commands near a cabin in the woods in upstate New York near the Canadian border. | Convicted murderer Sweat escaped from Dannemora prison in New York earlier this month along with Richard Matt, who was shot dead on Friday by officers when they say he failed to comply with commands near a cabin in the woods in upstate New York near the Canadian border. |
| Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill says Sweat was transported to a medical centre in Malone but had no information on his condition. | |
| Authorities say the pair used power tools to saw through a steel cell wall and several steel steam pipes, bashed a hole through a two-foot-thick brick wall, squirmed through pipes and escaped early on June 6 from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. | |
| Sweat was serving life without parole in the killing of a sheriff's deputy in Broome County in 2002. Matt was serving 25 years to life for the killing and dismembering of his former boss. | |
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