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David Sweat shot by trooper, bleeding badly
Buffalo News ^ | June 28, 2015

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: canada; captured; constable; davidsweat; jailbreak; leo; malone; manhunt; newyork; richardmatt
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1 posted on 06/28/2015 1:00:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good


2 posted on 06/28/2015 1:00:50 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But...but...but...where was his LOI-YER?


3 posted on 06/28/2015 1:01:08 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No Sweat.


4 posted on 06/28/2015 1:02:26 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hope the burn the mofo alive, I read about what he did to that Deputy. That this sc*mbag was not given the death penalty is just one more disgusting act by liberals.


5 posted on 06/28/2015 1:02:40 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trying to import pepper into canada.. ??

Uhh.. Will Gub Cuomo make a beeline for the site.. And all the cameras.


6 posted on 06/28/2015 1:03:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Buffalo News reported Sunday that Matt was also ill and drunk when he was shot.

If I were going to be shot, I think I'd like to be drunk first.

7 posted on 06/28/2015 1:03:22 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
How did he ever get out of a Cuomo secured prison?s/


8 posted on 06/28/2015 1:03:30 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’d slap him in a cell with the blonde babe .. For life..


9 posted on 06/28/2015 1:04:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The cops also shot Richard Matt in the head three times..NICE!!! I was wondering where all the protests were gonna take place, after all, he was drunk and the cops shot him three times..what, no #CriminalLivesMatter protests?


10 posted on 06/28/2015 1:05:03 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Found n a town named “Constable”. How ironic.

CC


11 posted on 06/28/2015 1:05:35 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hands up - don’t shoot.

Escaped prisoners lives matter.


12 posted on 06/28/2015 1:06:20 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What we have here is a failure to communicate!


13 posted on 06/28/2015 1:06:59 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Red in Blue PA

Those handoffs using a lowered rope are likely a right found in the 14th Amendment....


14 posted on 06/28/2015 1:07:54 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I guess they didn’t want these guys to have a chance to reveal how they escaped.


15 posted on 06/28/2015 1:08:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It's pretty hard to hide in this country these days what with all the surveillance and other tools law enforcement has at their disposal. But the biggest mistake these two made were to hide together. If they were smart, they'd have gone different directions and they would have had a better chance.

If this story about the second guy bleeding to death by gunshot is true, then this escape caper will have a happy ending.

But that woman who helped them escape should have a lot more charges heaped upon her when all this is said and done.

16 posted on 06/28/2015 1:08:22 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

After a week of horrible news...finally, something good.


17 posted on 06/28/2015 1:08:34 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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To: SamAdams76

They might be able to tack two felony murder charges onto the rest.


18 posted on 06/28/2015 1:09:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Constable is a few farms and a bar called the Blue Nun.


19 posted on 06/28/2015 1:09:26 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hopefully he joins his fellow escapee.


20 posted on 06/28/2015 1:09:31 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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