thank you. my pleasure. sweat s dramatic capture thanks to law enforcement jay cook. griff jenkins is on the ground in upstate new york. he spoke to a neighbor who knows jay cook. sea hero, there is no question about that i have known him for over 30 years and this is something extraordinary. when i heard this it didn t surprise me. a week ago i asked him when are you going to catch this guy. said be patient with me, i will eventually. jay is resting. i asked him how much sleep he got last night and he said i didn t get hardly any. so, i m sure his adrenaline is still going. and griff joins us from plattsburgh, new york. griff? hi, greta. that s right. the hometown hero. sergeant cook pays for a meal i would be surprised. also the u.s. border protection and tactical unit who shot and killed richard
that doesn t help him. yeah. you know, he didn t rush to come clean in terms of his involvement. that would have saved his hide a little bit more so than what s happened here. i think across the board you see from joyce mitchell, gene palmer, dave sweat and richard matt that failing to plan, is planning to fail. they didn t have a plan b. joyce mitchell didn t pick us up we were supposed to go to mexico instead we go to canada. richard matt has blisters, sweat says forget you and took off. you predicted. you said they should flight up. i don t think that gene palmer is going to be looking at exposure. joyce mitchell. they definitely planned to kill lyle michelleer. mitchell. she is looking at serious charges for planned attempted murder of her husband. i m pretty sure that they if they weren t watching i don t think they took my
it enough, but here it is. thank you to all the law enforcement in the state of new york for eliminating the real and imminent threat two of killers on the run. david sweat and richard matt both have killed before and there was every reason to believe that if given the opportunity, they would kill again. law enforcement for days in rough conditions never gave up. and they got their men both of them. also, we need to thank the families of the law enforcement. every day the families saw their spouse or mother or father head out to continue the search not knowing whether that kiss goodbye would be the last one if that brave member of law enforcement would return home again or not. that s how dangerous these fugitives were. so let me repeat the obvious, there is no doubt if given the chance both would kill again. so, thank you to law enforcement for the job well done and thank you to their families wholikewise sacrifice for us. and that s my off-the-record thank you for being with us. we w
the nightmare is finally over. it took 22 days. now that we have mr. sweat, it gives us the opportunity to ask more questions and provide more facts on the overall situation. captured. the manhunt is finally over as police shoot and wound prison escapee david sweat just two days after richard matt was gunned down by police. so how did they last so long on the run and how did the police finally track them down? joining us right now is the sheriff for franklin county new york of course. sheriff, thank you for joining us. thanks steve, brian and ainsley. thank you for having me. the capture a couple miles from the canadian border. what was going through your mind? when you were talking about how to set up a picket loin to stop it did you think they were getting this close to the border? a couple of the profilers and
shot cuffed and under arrest. escaped killer captured after spening three weeks running from the police. a single sergeant is responsible for the takedown. comes two days after sweat s accomplice richard matt was killed. peter doocy is live in con stable new york where all of the ak unfolded and wrapping up this 23-day stay. what s going on this morning? reporter: brian, david sweat was wearing heed to toe camouflage and had been wearing pepper shakers to throw off the scent of the canines. but none of it fooled sergeant jay cook the one out of 1300 law enforcement officers combing the countryside near canada who fanlly spotted sweat jogging down the road and had a choice to make. let him go or shoot. at some point running across a field he realized that sweat was going to make tight a tree line and possibly could have