david sweat is waking up this morning a hometown hero. it says so right on the front page of the malone telegram. his name new york state police sergeant jay cook. the firearms instructor who grew up near here and was driving by himself when he saw the man from the wanted posters joog u there a residential area. sergeant cook had to make a choice, let him get away or shoot him. at some point running across a field he realized that sweat was going to make it to a tree line and possibly could have disappeared and he fired two shots from his service weapon his handgun hitting sweat twice in the tore so. reporter: we were standing feet away from the ambulances that slowly shuttled sweat to a local hospital. but that facility was not equipped to treat his pair of gunshot wounds so sweat is now in albany medical center in