one of the suspects wa was armed with perhaps a shotgun and the shooting took place, again, richard matt shot and killed. the hunt on for david sweat in this wooded area. as you can see from some of this video, the enormous response you know there have been reports that as many as a thousand law enforcement officers have been involved in this 21-day search flooding that area which is now about 35 miles north and west of the prison where they escaped en route to canada. and the question is had they been hiding out in just camps and cabins all this time? have they been moving about just on foot? it appears to be so. the question now is will they be able to track down david sweat, and will they take him dead or alive. a witness who saw the activity near the richard matt shoot. we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we ve made our passions our life s work. we strive for the moments
but it really does appear they were going very slowly and carefully searching for essentially vacated hunting cabins that they could use to get food and it appears at least from the early reporting we re getting here possibly weaponly as well, right? right, exactly, look the weapon is the key to the highway. when they got the shotgun, that s the key to the highway. and what matt was likely doing and sweat was down by the road. they want to carjack somebody they want to get out of there. they had to get near the road. here comes cdp tactical team which is basically a s.w.a.t. team. that witness was critical. he heard one shot. it is loud. you would hear if there was a barrage of fire. it sounds like they spotted matt with the gun. he raised the gun, bun shot from an officer from customs and border protection and he s down.
that they had been behind them a step behind them for the past almost three weeks now. but that they were closing the gap. they were closing in they were getting closer. and now they were able to get pretty close, close enough within literal shooting distance to shoot richard matt and to kill him this afternoon. but there is i think, a great deal of optimism that they believe david sweat can t be far behind. i want you to stay with us. cliff van zant as well. one prisoner has been shot and killed. one other is still on the run. what could be going on in the mind of the remaining fugitive. stay with us. when you travel, we help you make all kinds of connections. connections you almost miss. and ones you never thought you d make. we help connect where you are. to places you never thought you d go. this, is why we travel.
they came in here they started searching. things seem to have gone cold. then yesterday a report here in malone, a cabin was broken into. they found evidence there that was again sent to the state crime lab. enough came back that they were confident that they had a confirmed sighting not visual sighting, but dna sighting as it were of one of the inmates, one of the escapees. then this morning in a field not far away they found more evidence. this really closed in very quickly. they were able to quickly close in on this area. that s why they were doing the searches. the customs border patrol tactical team doing the search in that area when they came upon matt. there was some sort of confrontation that ended with richard matt being shot and killed. chris? i want to bring in john if you ll stay with us. i want to bring in investigative reporter jonathan dienst. what can you tell us about how they have managed to stay on the
identification of the body but right now they are fairly confident, pretty confident that they ve got richard matt. they re hoping they say that there was evidence, we re told that david sweat was nearby. they re hoping that they re closing in on david sweat right now. i want to distinguish between what we know and do not know at this hour. the whereabouts of david sweat are unknown. we do not have any hard confirmed reporting indicating that that tactical unit that shot a man that they believe very strongly to be ripped matt that they actually saw david sweat. we don t know if that s the case, am i correct? we don t know if that s the case at all. as a matter of fact, i m not being told. the indications we re getting is that is not the case. that there was some evidence, they say, that david sweat was nearby in the area. nearby. exactly. and that s when the pursuit began. now, this custom border