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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. US prisoner-on-the-run David Sweat has been shot and captured by police 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. His capture last night was the dramatic climax to a three-week police chase to find him and fellow inmate Richard Matt, who had escaped from a prison in New York State.
Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill says Sweat was transported to a medical centre in Malone but had no information on his condition. The pair had been on the run from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York since June 6 with 1,300 police officers involved in the manhunt.
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, 35, was shot by police and taken into custody in Constable, New York – just five miles south of the state’s border with the Canadian province of Quebec.
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. His accomplice Matt, 49, was shot dead by police on Friday in Duane, 23 miles south of Constable.
PA A New York State police spokesman said Sergeant Jay Cook of the New York State Police had spotted "a suspicious man walking down a roadway" at about 3:20 p.m. local time.
He then shot and injured the man, who turned out to be Sweat.
Sweat was taken into custody alive, and then taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Local media reported Sweat was bleeding badly from “life-threatening wounds” and a photograph of released on CNN shortly after his capture showed him seated on the ground in a dark jacket and muddy camouflage with what appeared to be dried blood on his face.
Security was tight outside the Alice Hyde Medical Centre in Malone, where Sweat was transported.
Malone resident Jessica Randall, 38, expressed her relief at Sweat’s capture, “I think a lot of people are going to rest easier tonight”, she said.
Sweat and Matt cut through cell walls, climbed along a catwalk and shimmied down a steam pipe emerging from a manhole outside prison walls to make their escape.
Sweat had been serving a life sentence without parole in 2003 for killing a New York sheriff's deputy.
Matt was convicted in the 1997 torture, murder and dismemberment of his boss in Tonawanda, New York.
Two prison workers have been charged with aiding in the escape.