violent if not for the quick thinking of that agent. jake? sweat says that he had a few close calls with authorities when they were on the run. that s what you re referring to? reporter: absolutely. there were a few close calls that i think a lot of people aren t aware of. at one point when the two men were together. they were hiding in some kind of hunting cabin. they were so close they could and then after the two men had split up at one point david sweat was hiding in some sort of tree stand. he saw an officer walk right by him, stayed silent until the officer walked by. searchers at times felt they were very close, and now they realize just how close they were. thank you, jason care roll. a tragic scene. right now crews are looking for dozens of people missing after a
clinton correctional facility in dannemora. what information now do we have about what happened in the wood while matt and sweat were out there. what happened between them? turns out anderson there were several close calls. at one point, matt and sweat were hiding inside some sort of hunting cabin. some people had come to check on it. they could hear their voices outside. decided to stay hidden until the folks left. then another incident, about a week or so ago. when david sweat was hiding in a tree stand. he could see a law enforce. officer walk by. he stayed hidden as well. so, it turns out that there were several situations where these law enforcement searches were out there searching and much closer, just a few feet away from both of these inmates than they may have ever thought. and the problems between the two inmates. what s emerged? yeah, seemed like there were a lot of those. much may have had to do with alcohol. remember the alcohol, richard matt found, the bottle of pu
were hiding inside some sort of hunting cabin. some people had come to check on it. they could hear their voices outside. decided to stay hidden until the folks left. then another incident about a week or so ago. when david sweat was hiding in a tree stand. he could see a law enforce. officer walk by. he stayed hidden as well. so it turns out that there were several situations where these law enforcement searches were out there searching and much closer just a few feet away from both of these inmates than they may have ever thought. and the problems between the two inmates. what s emerged? yeah seemed like there were a lot of those. much may have had to do with alcohol. remember the alcohol, richard matt found, the bottle of purple flavored alcohol. apparently he was drinking to much of it. really upsetting david sweat. that wasn t the only thing. david sweat was upset with the fact that richard matt was out of shape couldn t keep up. as a result of both of those factors he finally
disappeared and he fired two shorts from his service weapon his handgun hitting sweat twice in the torso. reporter: sweat was not armed and apprehended and he did not resist once shot. impaired by the injury so much that sweat s eyes were open when he wu rolled to the local hospital here on a stretcher but he was not talking. he was quickly air lifted to albany where he lays now in critical condition. the spot where the manhunt came to an end is near a barn not by the kind of hunting cabin it was speculated he might have been hiding out in. and once sweat was taken away the road blocks and grim faced officers disappeared within minutes. the neighborhood where this all went down is so close to canada that our cell phones are picking up towers knot of the border and sweat almost made it there. but he didn t. so now on what would have been day 24 of the manhunt, instead of starting a new life in a different country, he will go
and how long he can sustain himself without water for the next days ahead. thank you very much for that tip. appreciate it. we spoke to the man who called police after items were found inside the place, inside the cabin. the phone call led the officers to richard matt. i want you to listen to this. bobby, how did this start? your son called you? he called me 12:20 on friday afternoon. he went down to check the hunting cabin and noticed something out of place. called me and asked me if i was up there. i said i haven t been there since sunday. i said wait. i ll go up and look with you. we ll decide if we ll call the troopers or not. when i was talking to him on the phone, there was a gunshot then at 12:20. he told me he said there is a gunshot. i heard it through the phone. reporter: what was your thought? you re talking to your son, he notices there may have been a disturbance and you hear a gunshot.