where there s the most hunting happening, right? yeah that s exactly right. the hunting season is in the fall for about three or four months in the fall. during the rest of the time, they re for the most part unoccupied. although some hunters have told me they don t keep their weapons in these cabins in the off-season, they re not so sure about everyone. one of the issues they were concerned about, state police and others there might have been a weapon or two in this cabin that they picked up. we re hearing in these reports tonight that richard matt might have had a shotgun. you have wonder where he got that and whether he may have picked that up in one of these cabins. again, what i would point out, something that struck us is this cabin, you don t just stumble upon it. you aren t going to walk through those woods and you aren t going to necessarily take that trail. it almost comes to an end in parts, extremely muddy, difficult to walk up quite a distance off any main road. it reall
if this was not going to be a successful end or if there wasn t a feeling that this was not goging to be an end of a successful pursuit here. this has all come together quickly today. the pursuit, the closing in on richard matt they started the day analyzing evidence that they pound in a cabin here in malone that had been left behind by one of the escapees. and then this morning they found more evidence in a field. there was a growing sense that they were closing in and indeed this afternoon this customs and border patrol tactical team doing a sweep through a field at about 3:45 this afternoon encountered richard matt. we don t know the details of the confrontation, but we do know that it ended with the customs and border patrol tactical team shooting richard matt or who they believed to be richard matt and killing him. this will take a final and firm
prison officer, the one they broke into? yes. the cabin is owned by prison officers. it s a group of them. the way these hunting camps work is everyone has a bit of the lease and they all use it through hunting season. all prison officers three from clinton correctional. the cabin officer that stumbled upon that cabin worked at upstate correctional. we don t have any link between any of these officers and richard matt and david sweat, and there are 800 prison officers that work at clinton. a lot of them hunt a lot of them have cabins up in these woods. so it isn t necessarily some kind of nefarious connection between these two, but it is worth taking note of. just to be clear, part of what is aiding appears to have aided the two fugitives in being able to make their way through this part of the woods where there are a lot of hunting cabins most of them don t have people in them at this time of year. it s not a period of the year
feet and conscience from joyce mitchell, who obviously now is facing many years in prison for helping them could be the thing that essentially kept them contained into a searchable zone. jonathan, can you give us a sense of what law enforcement is on the ground there? well right now the latest update is it s a very small area in this wooded area near the shooting scene where they are searching for the second suspect. you ve got state police who are the lead agency but they re being assisted by the u.s. marshals special operations group along with fbi agents along with customs and border protection teams, and it was one of those customs border protection teams that apparently shot and killed the suspect richard matt. remember, it was earlier this week governor cuomo reported that a shotgun was stolen or reported missing from a cabin where one of the suspects were believed to have been hiding out. so the reporting that we re getting now is that this customs team stumbled upon the suspe
several miles away in deep heavy woods. there s a lake there, lake titus. there s a ski resort not a resort but a ski area mt. titus area. it s very rural. it s very rugged. very heavily forested. it s all going on in that area now. and we still are awaiting word as to what s going on. sorry, i missed the question. no, that s fine. i want you to hang on for a second. i want to caution because during these circumstances information can get garbled and often bears out incorrectly. we have no hard confirmation of an attempted carjacking at this point. to the extent that we have hard confirmation from law enforcement is that a suspect has been shot and killed believed to be richard matt. the absolute confirmation of that would have to come with dna test testing, but law enforcement officials are confident that s happened. we have reporting from john that suggests there s a second round of gunfire suggesting that the other escaped killer could be