mail kurnd. called out to him again at which time the male turned around kind of like what do you want from me? and he recognized him as being drifd drifd. at some point running across the field, he realized sweat was going to make it to a tree line and possibly could have gotten him then. he was treated on the scene and airlifted to the hospital. he s in stable condition and i would expect that he s going to be moved to one of those trauma center for future treatment. as i. this event took place about a
mile and a half from the co nad canadian border. we were pushing the border. where it was, i can only assume that he was going for the border that he. it s been pam three weeks. we had some investigation of the where we thought maybe there s an area on route 41 in malone and we were able to obtain dna discarded material that came back to david sweat. it was pipper strokes and we thought maybe they were using pepper to throw the dogs off the scent. we did have difficulty tracking so it was fairly respect tif in
the tick-tock of this a state trooper spotted a man who looked like a convict walking down the street. it was, in fact david sweat. at 3:20 p.m. sweat turned and ran and the new york state trooper turned and shot him, twice in the back. at this hour sweat is in a hospital. then they are going to transfer him to the potston hospital before going on to albany. we re waiting to learn exactly where they re going to take him to work on him finally, to work on his wounds. let s bring in steve robbins again. as we wait until you talk to the governor. do you think they will tell us
anything. then he saw an ambulance come and an ambulance leave. that is how quickly it went down and that is how, really oblivious some of the people around here were because it all happened so quickly and it all happened really without much of a chase and without much of a fight, based on what we ve heard. something else that we heard the details about from the new york state police officials and from the governor. even though david sweat was not armed, he was shot by that sergeant because he was about to make it to a treeline. there are a lot of open spaces here that are paved roads and many houses and families that live around here but the trees are really thick. so when they talk about how they felt like they needed this sergeant felt like he needed to shoot to take down the fugitive david sweat so that he didn t make it to the treeline that s because if he made it there, and this sergeant was by himself, there is a solid possibility that sweat would have disappeared again up her
this is why, you know i ve always believed over the past several years that there has been somewhat of a lack of discipline and order in law enforcement agencies because when i was in the police department 38 years and going back into the 60s, 70s and 80s. now we don t see young people going into the military. the question is as for the warden does he have recent training and how about that chain of command. this is something that has to be viewed given the fact we had a major, major prison break. where is the warden? not one reporter brings up the person who was in charge of the prison when the prison break happened. not one person in that room. i m shouting it but it s just you and me in the studio at fox report right now. not one. and that s what s another extraordinary component of this.