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
which was roughly 20 to 30 miles from that location. but we re now hearing that s caped killer was in fact shot and wounded in a town just a couple of miles from canada. so it seems clear that he was headed in that direction and trying to make his way out of the united states. rick the police you interviewed the sheriff yesterday. part of their tactics was to put up a line. they ve had police officer and others 50 feet apart as part of that perimeter to potentially prevent him from going to canada. do you think that was successful? that is andwhat stopped them from getting that far and led to the shooting apparently and wounding of him today. reporter: well they have a large team of some 1300 officers and agents work this case. but they need more than 1300 people to draw a line across the canadian-u.s. border and stop them from crossing. they had a lot of eyeballs up there. they were looking very hard for
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all officers pleaded not guilty to charges ranging to second degree assault. it appears a hunting camp is now the focus for the search for the two escaped killer who s broke out of prison in new york. dna samples taken from food left in the franklin county cabin confirmed the inmates were there. also found in the cabin, prison issued underwear. the police now swarming the area. neighbors are scared. a confirmed lead for us and we re going to run this to the ground. nerve-racking. we were up all night. we have the guns all ready in the house. a witness also reported to police he saw a person running from the cabin. john stockwell says if it weren t for my dog, i would be dead right now. tornado watches are up in four states overnight with major cities in the bull s eye. the same system hammered the small town of portland in western michigan with an ef-1
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