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.
So, inquiring minds want to know - does that technique actually work?
Do they make good burgers at the blue nun? Just askin’ in case i’m ever up that way.
CC
I was expecting Gov Cuomo to call off the police after Matt was killed so that he could go “mano a mano” in hunting down Sweat personally. so he could get the big political bump.
LMAO
Some men you just can’t reach...
Which is the way he wants it...
Well... He gets it.
Send an email to “MythBusters.”
Oh, good.
Let him walk it off.
May he last long enough for it to get infected.
Instead he got life in so-called maximum security prison where you can get placed in honor wing and fool or persuade guards/employees into giving you everything you need to escape.
It’s been about 20 years since I was up there. They had cold Genesee though. That’s all that mattered ;) My last memory of the place was helping my smart mouth friend to the truck after a farmboy took umbrage to his flirtations with said farmboy’s wife.
The blood the cops just found may be leftover from that event.
I had a feeling they wouldn’t be taken alive or unharmed.
LOL.
CC
I hope this report is true.
I’m sick of this subject.
no double tap. Bad joss.
does that technique actually work?
It seemed to work for Cool Hand Luke !
At the time it wasn’t funny. But now? Yup ;)
And tomato juice...
I bet Sweat and Matt didn’t abide by the Safe Act.
The guy is shot by a cop, reports say he is bleeding badly, what happened then, was he teleported to another state or planet??????? Why wasn't he captured after being shot?
WTH?????
Is this bad reporting or just bad copping???
Tell him to put some ice on it.
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