his body and there s a good chance of maybe killing him. speaking of that we should report right now that law enforcement sources are telling cnn s pamela brown and alexandra field that richard matt the fugitive who has been missing after escape from clinton correctional facility roughly three weeks ago, richard matt we have been reporting he was shot we are now going to tell you that law enforcement sources are telling cnn that he has been killed by law enforcement. he is dead. tom fuentes joining us here in studio actually tom, hold on a second. i want to go to deb feyerick. we do want to let you know that federal, state and local sources are now telling us here at cnn that in fact yes, richard matt has been shot dead. this was a huge chase and please really believe they were getting much, much closer early today
radio second but in the meantime let me go back to deb feyerick who broke the story. deb, do law enforcement authorities tell you that there is a link between that dna evidence and this action that you re breaking here on cnn, the idea that law enforcement has shot one of the fugitives richard matt pursuing the other one, david sweat. it s interesting that police had said earlier in fact that the evidence was conclusive. i m getting a call from one of my sources. deb, take that call from your source. we ll come back to new a second. hello. tom fuentes, information coming in as she reports it right now. tom fuentes, formerly of the fbi, we have a report now that law enforcement is trying to hone in on these dangerous fugitives that have been missing for three weeks. police have shot one of them richard matt. they are pursuing the other one,
reporter: that s right, what deb feyerick just said shots fired at a camper this afternoon may have alerted them they were in the area. and they have proceeded all along, even though there was one gun they knew was missing, that therm armed and dangerous. but these are hunting cabins. that s the definition of the word. i found out they hunt moos and bear and white-tailed deer here but they store the guns in these hunting cabins. the families evolve. they are constantly changing the families that are in those cabins. so the amount of weapons are extraordinary that someone can get if they would burglarize the area. it is believed at this point two cabins have been targets. if you re just joining us we re reporting of the two fugitives, the two convicted killers who escaped roughly three weeks ago, one of them,
of evidence they got lead them to you. and now deborah feyerick is pursuing matt has shot and they are in pursuit, shows they were right. the burglary of that cabin on thursday that the new york state police told cnn about, culminated in finding what they say was conclusive evidence which led them then to test things in the field around or toward the northwest area and that s where they found other items, but silent here the helicopters have left but this is just unfolding as we speak, just the beginning. jake? i know that law enforcement officials, jean were worried about all those hunting cabins in the area that would be easy for hardened criminals such as richard matt and david sweat to break into because a lot of them have shotguns rifles knives other weapons. it obviously is a pursuit that turned po tenchsally lethal
david sweat. what meetsly comes to mind it s interesting that the two are still together. first of all, i m not surprised by that but still surprised they re so close to the original escape place. the fact they didn t get out of the state, out of the country all this time they re still together in the woods trying to survive kind of surprises me they didn t have a better backup plan that is joyce mitchell picking them up. deb feyerick and jean casarez both reporting that they had been told law enforcement officials had been telling jean casarez and deb feyerick that it seemed as though and law enforcement authorities were concerned that these two were intending to cross the border into canada to go bean northern new york and cross the border. how does that complicate such a search obviously they cooped on a lot of matters, are u.s. marshals not allowed into