Posted on 06/28/2015 1:00:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
MALONE – David Sweat was shot by a state trooper in the Town of Constable Sunday afternoon, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said.
Sweat is bleeding badly, according to the source who called his wounds “life-threatening.”
The Press-Republican also reported that David Sweat was shot. The paper said he is seriously wounded.
Constable is just north of Malone, where Matt was shot Friday afternoon, and just south of the Canadian border.
More than 1,300 federal, state and local officers were hunting for Sweat in the dense woods of Franklin County in the northern Adirondack Mountains.
More than a dozen state police cars were seen racing away from the Malone barracks shortly after 3 p.m.
Earlier Sunday, law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said David Sweat’s DNA was found on a pepper shaker in an area about a mile away from where Matt was shot.
But it was unclear as to whether Sweat was near Matt when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection tactical team opened fire on him with a semi-automatic weapon and shot him three times in the head.
The pepper shaker was found in an area where authorities believe Matt and Sweat were resting, the source said.
The pepper wasn’t for seasoning food, the law enforcement source said. Pepper is often used by people on the run who are trying to throw off K9 units. Ralph “Bucky” Phillips, who escaped from the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden, tried the same tactic when he was on the run in 2006.
The new DNA evidence is the best indicator that Sweat could still be in the dense woods of Franklin County, in the northern Adirondack Mountains.
As two days passed since Matt was killed, speculation had grown that Sweat had somehow eluded the hundreds of law officers searching for him.
The last time there was any confirmation of his whereabouts came last weekend when DNA tests confirmed both men had been at an Owls Head hunting camp reported burglarized on Saturday. Matt’s DNA turned up at another burglarized cabin in the area Wednesday, but they was no evidence – either forensic or sightings – of Sweat.
That was until the tests on the DNA from the campsite came back Friday.
In the meantime, autopsy results on Matt’s body came back that showed his three days on the run were grueling – and that he met a quick and bloody end.
“Dr. Michael Sikirica determined the cause of death to be severe skull fractures and brain injuries due to gunshot wounds to the head,” a statement from State Police about the autopsy results said.
Matt was shot three times by a Vermont-based U.S. Customs and Border Protection Tactical Unit member who discharged several rounds from a semi-automatic weapon, officials said.
Also, the autopsy, conducted Saturday at Albany Medical Center, revealed that Matt probably spent most of the last three weeks in the outdoors.
He was shot about 40 miles west of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, from which he and Sweat escaped through the pipes June 6.
Bug bites were found on Matt’s lower extremities, along with “blisters and minor abrasions consistent with living in the woods for three weeks,” the statement read.
The Buffalo News reported Sunday that Matt was also ill and drunk when he was shot. A law enforcement source revealed that soiled underwear was found Wednesday in a burglarized cabin. The DNA on the underwear was matched to Matt and indicated he was sick, possibly from drinking bad water or eating spoiled food. The source also said Matt’s body had a strong odor of alcohol. The owner of a cabin that had been burglarized found empty booze bottles.
He wasn’t much of a cool hand.
Yeah but they are allowed to have them, not you.
“Sweat is bleeding badly, according to the source who called his wounds ‘life-threatening.’”
He’s down! He’s incapacitated! Punch him in the wound a few times for good measure, ya p*ssies!
Yeesh! Do I have to solve EVERY problem these days? ;)
Define rugged.
Some men, you just can’t reach! ;)
Yeesh! Do I have to solve EVERY problem these days? ;)
Thanks for the belly laugh.
Do you solve problems outside of WI? ;)
“so-called maximum security prison”... From what I have seen, that place was run like a “Frat House”....
Pepper isn’t often found in a remote wooded area. I wonder if you could train dogs to search for pepper?
Good. Maybe FOX News will put something else for a change on its from page.
Sheesh! I realize they are in NY but really... don’t they realize they are a national publication?
A whole lot of nothing about nothing.
Saves putting him up at $35,000 or so per year for the rest of his miserable life.
and Father Gruner’s printing operation.
Cook called out to the individual, and when he turned the officer recognized him as Sweat, police said.
The fugitive took off running and the officer shot him twice in the torso, police said. Sweat was taken into custody and transported to a local hospital for treatment.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/29/us-usa-new-york-prisoners-idUSKCN0P80TT20150629
The Border Patrol guy who got Matt got 3 hits in the cabeza with a rifle, moving (and eventually falling) target.
That’s pretty good shooting.
He was from Vermont. We don't screw around.
Looks like in addition to being shot, he may have “resisted” with his face.
You mean besides electing Socialist Sanders and Communist Dean.
Sure was. But I would have preferred the SOB die a slow painful death, considering what he had done to his elderly victim...
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"He [Richard Matt] killed a 76-year-old businessman by breaking his neck, then cut up the body and threw the pieces into a river.
(snip)
The victim was a food broker named William Rickerson who had hired and then fired Matt.
(snip)
On Dec. 4, 1997, according to the trial testimony of an accomplice, Matt beat Rickerson with a knife sharpener, bound him with duct tape, tossed him in the trunk of a car, and then drove around for 27 hours looking for a place to kill and bury him.
At one stop on the drive, Matt opened the trunk, broke four of Rickerson's fingers, hit him in the chest with a steering wheel locking device, then shut the trunk and kept driving.
The accomplice testified that Matt had him turn down a cul-de-sac, stop the car and open the trunk again. He said Matt told him: "You know, I've had enough of this."
He said Matt reached in and twisted Rickerson's head. "I heard a pop," the accomplice testified, and the businessman "just dropped back in the trunk." Matt cut off the arms and legs with a hacksaw, authorities said.
A fisherman discovered the torso in the Niagara River."
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