sources close to the investigation have told cnn that matt had a relationship with joyce mitchell the woman who worked with limb and david sweat at the tailor shop. mitchell is alleged to have passed tools inside frozen is hamburger meat. mitchell as attorney says that richard matt considered clinton correctional officers palmer quote, as his boy. palmers s attorney has not commented on that. after the ricker son killing in 1997 richard matt fled to mexico to get away. he served nine years there for killing a man in a bar fight in mexico. then he was extradited to the u.s. to stand trial in the ricker son case. a detective from that case described richard matt as psychotic. quote i have seen him inflict wounds on himself, break her collarbone and not seek any treatment. he s just totally, totally fearless and does not respond
manhunt. multiple law enforcement sources say rich art matt has been shot and killed and police are in hot pursuit for david sweat. the breakthrough follows the discoveries of what police called conclusive evidence. let s go to our national correspondent deborah feyerick. what are you learning? what we are learning according to multiple sources that all or correspondents are speaking to and that is that rich art matt has been shot and killed. shots were fired at a camper van, that camper van then calling 911. it may have been those shots that essentially exposed the two prisoners and where they were located. we are told that as of right now, there are no eyes on david sweat. that meanwhile they are chasen him, somehow he managed to elude authorities, but he is now alone. these men spent three weeks together even longer planning this escape.
area. richard matt has been shot and killed in this gen area but now the hundred dollars is under way for david sweat. there is obviously deep concern that david sweat is armed. he s obviously very, very dangerous. joining us now is our law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. also joining us on the phone is lenny depaul a former commander for the u.s. marshals service. tom, what do you make of this late-breaking development. i think it s a fantastic development. matt is gone now it s down to just one and they have a fairly confirmed location for where these guys had been and had been heading. so i think it s very, very likely that sweat is going to be in custody by morning. either in custody or dead. same definition just whether he s breathing or not. lenny, what do you think? absolutely. i mirror exactly what tom was saying but both of them if they were taken alive, they ll spend the rest of their lives in
assume they were together so maybe the dogs have picked up a scent. that s what i would think it would be they re closing off that area doing a crunch effect where they re closing in the area. what does it say to you, tom, it s been two hours since the authorities the border patrol in effect shot and killed richard matt but they haven t yet over the past two hours been able to find the other killer. it doesn t surprise me if he had a chance to run into the woods as the shooting was taking place or if he had already separated. so we don t know that but if they re using the term hot pursuit, the common use of that term is you re in chase mode you have him or are very close, or the dogs are howling and they re chasing him through the woods. that usually is a term means they re very close. but it s an extremely dangerous moment. you have to assume that david sweat, matt is armed. he s a cop killer so we ve
our breaking news sources now say the escaped prisoner richard matt has been shot dead. the chase is on for the fellow fugitive, david sweat. live from malone new york that s where this drama is being played out right now. what s the latest, alexandra? reporter: hey there wolf. we know a chain of events led up to the shooting and ultimately the death of richard matt. law enforcement officials had told me that there were shots fired in one area. later, a bullet hole discovered in a camper. then finally, richard matt found. now our cnn producer shimon perez filling in key details how all of this went down in the area police have been so heavily focused on. we re learning that at 1:30 in the afternoon near route 30, a series of shots were fired. around 2:00 near 1:19 another