so obviously that posed some concerns to all the courtroom staff, the attorneys, the judge. so there was that. so when he was i m sorry. no, please continue. so he ended up being shot, by not complying with a command, it really didn t surprise me because it was just in keeping with what he had said about eight years ago. officer shouting at him, put your hands up and he didn t do it. let me move on to the fact that we re now hearing from david sweat who s talking saying he ended up ditching matt because he was essentially, gosh i hate to use this phrase, but dead weight in the woods. does that surprise you, that matt couldn t continue? it does because he seemed to be such a sturdy individual someone who we all thought, with his bare hands, had tremendous power.
we know from a law enforcement source that richard matt had fallen ill possibly from eating or drinking something that was bad, and sweat left him. he was eventually found 16 miles north just about two miles north of the border with canada. and, as these details come out, brooke, we know investigators are go rg to continue. they want this investigation to reveal exactly how all of this went down so they can prevent it from happening again, brooke. the pieces will come together. sara thank you. you know david sweat s time on the run ended in a field just shy of that canadian border two miles away. here say look at the twists and turns in this incredible story that started with guards finding makeshift dummies in the inmates beds 23 days ago. there is a manhunt under way for two convicted murderers who have escaped from prison. these are dangerous people and they re nothing to be trifled with and we want the
mitchell and head on to mexico. and the fact that, larry, it hasn t even been 24 hours since he was caught this is a guy in the hospital and that he has cracked does this surprise you he s cracked so quickly? no, not really. i imagine there s, no pun intended, a lot of people at clinton sweating david sweat right now. because he knows the dirt on the institution. he was there for a long time. and they were probably hoping the cops would have taken him out and killed him also. i mean, he s serving a life sentence so what does he really have to lose? you really think that? all of that planning and he d be okay with suicide by cop? he necessarily wouldn t be okay with it but i m talking about all of the people at clinton that probably helped him, staff members, other inmates, they wanted him dead. they didn t want him taken alive. because he knows things. clinton correctionals the people have been there for so long that he knows the dirt on the people.