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.
I’ll bet the locals will have their first good night’s sleep in a long while...............*no sweat* is certainly good news for them.
It was the other guy that got three to the noggin.
Sweat was shot in the back, not the head.
This is unconfirmed but sources are saying that Sweat was wearing a pair of jorts upon his capture. If true, this is showing very poor fashion sense.
No, I want to call the Police “Constable”.
It sounds much more dignified.
Imagine a crowd of disgruntled (your word here) taunting “F*** the Constables”. LOL
What did Sweat do? I heard Matt killed someone and chopped them up, is that correct?
CNN
Officials are saying that Sweat was unarmed.
Hey some of those farmers daughters are pretty hot in Constable too so.....you know... ;)
Good. Means he had no chance to return fire.
>>>Sweat was shot in the back, not the head<<<
I would prefer the Back of the Head.
No make it the Front of the Head. Right between the Eyes that helped sweep that Moronic Woman off her Feet and into the Prison Linen Closet.
Or the brilliant idea of “equality in the workplace” by the Fem-nazis that lets women guard male prisoners. Absolutely and utterly ludicrous, and of course what happens? The women prison guards get busted all the time for having sex, doing favors for the prisoners. So because of liberals not only does this animal NOT get the death penalty, he also gets a woman to have sex with him and help him escape.
Here’s another bitch who got pregnant from a cop killer, a guy who assassinated TWO NYPD cops and not only was he NOT executed, why he gets to live it up like he’s in a bordello.
The female prison guard is hoping he dies. Otherwise he’ll throw her under the bus and result in a even lengthier prison stay
Well he ain’t dying.........
He was already serving life without parole, so he’s taking somebody down with him, especially her for screwing up the get-away.
Anyway, on a miserably drizzly, damp, dank June day, the jort-wearing David Sweat was shot in an open field and captured.
His accomplice was shot a couple days ago three times in the head and he was said to be wearing a pair of jorts as well. The autopsy also showed that his body was covered in mosquito bites and other rashes and bugbites that are consistent with spending three weeks on the run in the outdoors.
This miserable pair were obviously not very intelligent - barely making it 30 miles away from the prison despite having over two weeks lead time.
When I say the weather is wet and miserable, that's exactly what I mean. In Malone, NY, the current temperature is a chilly 57.7 degree with a cold rain. I am guessing that David Sweat was wet and miserable as he lumbered through the fields in his ridiculous jorts.
See here for why men should never wear jorts.
Morons. They deserve their fate.
He was running straight across a field heading straight to the Canadian border when they dropped him like a deer. He was unarmed. He’s also in stable condition and if he sings somebody is going down the river.
“When I say the weather is wet and miserable, that’s exactly what I mean. “
I was born just a ways south from Malone. Grew up there. Trust me. You described a nice day there. You should see July/August when it’s 100 and raining. Or January when it’s 50 below. Or the 4th of July and snowing. Seriezly. ;)
The dogs were probably taught "pepper".
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