tarsia in the stomach reportedly striking his tack and kidney. sweat jumped in another vehicle and ran over the deputy, running over him dragging him in the car across the lot. one of the other suspects charged out of the woods, picked up the deputy s gin and shot him point blank, twice in the face. sweat was charged after police found a hand drawn map and sketch of the fireworks store with sweat s fingerprint on it. now sweat was was also heading to prison where he would meet richard matt for the first time and other inmates say quickly become friends. the relationship made closer by the fact that both are housed in what s called the honor block at clinton correctional facility, a prison block reserved for inmates who have gone years without significant disciplinary problems. the honor block has its
sealed his fate testifying he confessed to her he had broken rickerson s neck. she said he told her it was an accident. perhaps just as cunning and dangerous was david sweat. at 35, he is supposed to spend the rest of his life behind bars here for killing sheriffs deputy kevin tarcia. after sweat and two with others robbed a fireworks store, the deputy confronted them. his sister spoke by phone to anderson cooper. i never put him out of my mind. i always think of what he did and how awful this guy is. reporter: it was july 4th, 2002, deputy tarsia pulled in to the parking lot where the men were parked. in court the three suspects shared what happened next. sweat who, was hiding under a truck, said the deputy opened fire first. then sweat got to his feet and started firing. one of sweat s bullets hid
part of that treeline that officers were so afraid he was able to jump into and get lost. and what truly speaks to just how unexpected so many of the turns have been, poppy, we have seen 11, nearly 1,200 police officers saturate this area and yet a lone police sergeant on patrol sergeant jay cook was the one that ended what was just so much pain, so much agony and concern for just so many people so you may imagine really whatnot only what it means for the people that kept their doors locked, children inside and family of deputy kevin tarcia. shot and killed in 2002 by david sweat. early on in this thing, three weeks ago, an opportunity to speak to supervisors say that this escape basically tore open a wound that took years to heal. knowing that this very dangerous cop killer was on the run. so if anybody wanted to see david sweat back behind bars, it