These two men, 48yearold richard matt convicted of kidnapping and beating a man to death. And 34yearold david sweat, a convicted murderer convicted of shooting a sheriffs deputy 22 times. Police say the men fooled their Prison Guards at bed check friday night, stuffing sweatshirts underneath their sheets to look like they were asleep in bed. Then armed with power tools they can cut their way through steel walls of their cells, worked their way through an ewill be a bar rat maze of tunnels and prison pipes before coming out through a manhole several blocks away. By the time the Prison Guards feignly realized what had happened they found a note a postit note telling them have a nice day. It all played out at a maximum security prison in dan mora new york 20 miles from the Canadian Border. They could be literally anywhere. Although we have notified our partners in canada, the ports of entry across the northern border certainly every Law Enforcement agency in the northeast, they could be o
The question i wanted to ask, were you as floored by the rest of the country about those charges having been brought yesterday . Absolutely. Everything about yesterdays announcement was surprising. Theres become an expectation that these kinds of cases that takes months very deliberately gather the evidence and can take up to three months. The Police Department has said in an aggressive timetable, two weeks. Some said it was an artificial timetable. Some of the even the preliminary work wouldnt be done by this if states attorney herself said im not going to be bound by the police timetable and yet on the same day that police said they were going to wrap their investigation, she announced charges against all six officers which in and of itself is something we have not seen before in these type of cases. She did not allege it was a deliberate rough ride. Theres still a lot unknownallegations are. We dont know how mr. Gray died, what caused it. Shes saying that the negligence of the offic
Reporter the police chief was interrupted by angry and vocal protesters demanding answers after seeing the video that shows officer Michael Slager repeatedly shooting Walt Walter Scott in the back. The man who shot the cell phone video wednesday Feidin Santana and he says he was on the way to work when he saw the struggle between slager and scott. And i saw them down on the floor before i started to recording. They were down on the floor, and the police had control of the situation. He had control of scott. And scott was trying to just get away from the taser, which the taser, you know, you can hear the sound of the taser. Reporter the video appears to show that they started to wrestle over the object possibly the taser, and it is an object that falls on the ground as scott turns to the run, and then slager fires eight shots, and four strikes him in the back. At no point is slager yelling a warning, he just fires. And then he calls for back up. Shots fired. Suspect down. He grabbed my
And now, what has been said about what happened . Well, don, for the past 24 hours or more we have been trying to fill in critical gaps for the story, and specifically what happened in the moments leading up to when this video started being shot. How did this conflict escalate the way it did . Well finally tonight, Fayden Santana who took the video started to fill in the gaps and not all of them, but some of them. This is what he told Nbcs Lester Holt a short time ago. What did you see and what did you do . What i saw was as far as the video, the shooting and then after the victim dead before the video, i was walking to my job, i was walking to my job and i witness eded that i was coming out he was coming out of the store . Yes, and i saw him maybe five or six minutes yelling and chasing to stop him. And when i first heard something i thought that somethng happened about it. So i ran to the scene to see what was going on, and when i saw him, you know, that they were ugh, on the floor,
Arrested. All of them surrendering voluntarily. And they have been charged with his death. All six officers today are out on bond. Their whereabouts unknown. Freddie grays family and city leaders are urging for calm during todays marches. Rallies are planned across the country today. In fact from los angeles, and to the east coast. In support of what is taking place here in baltimore. Cnns rene marsh is also here in baltimore. And so rene it is unclear of course where many of the officers are. We do know that they did surrender without incident. Facing their charges. Many of them have posted bond that was anywhere between 200 and 300,000. What do we no about their potential whereabouts or even their next moves . Fred so of course were at the intersection where there is a Police Presence. But nothing like what we saw in the past few days. As far as the officers go. As you know this is a make up of five men and one woman. We know that not only did they post bond but the mayor called for