wasn t just a needle in a hay stack. he was really is a needle in a pile of needles for the first 18 days when he was stuck with matt. but his luck ran out. i salute these guys. it was a fantastic job. no one hurt but the bad guy. that s a grand slam. i want to make one thing clear and maybe you can explain it to us. people on twitter mentioned to me that the police do not shoot to kill they shoot to stop. when you have somebody like david sweat shot and taken into custody, what does law enforcement do to stop these guys and take them in when shot have to be fired, considering that richard matt yesterday was in fact shot three times in the head. we don t want to call that shot to kill but at the same time you shoot smob in the head and most likely they re going to be dead. well you know it s easy for, you know laypersons to misinterpret the justifiable use of deadly force as it relates to
but the most important thing is that we get a sense of what this guy did, how did he survive for three weeks. was he given the opportunity to go into cabins of corrections officers that he might have known about? we already know that some one of the cabins was owned by corrections officer. bottom line kudos to the law enforcement. they are the best of the best. they continue usually were determined they did it god bless them that nobody was hurt. janine, we re going back to richard. reporter: i m told he was shot in the count to have constable, just a couple of miles from the canada border. we had been told on friday afternoon that they were concerned that both of these men might be headed toward canada
one of these fugitives. that s really what put police on richard matt s trail yesterday, when they closed in on him. a series of tips from individuals who were aware of the situation, alert to it. they called 911 at the right time and police were able to make that capture. alexandra field reporting live for us where they gunned down killed richard matt yesterday. thanks alex. appreciate it. let s talk more about this with senior vice president for a security firm and casey. it seems sort of shocking if they were together they have no scent trail, they have no eyes on him, they believe he s contained but we don t have a lot of details. well remember what the police are telling us and what they know are two different things here. when you saw what happened yesterday, they were in hot pursuit. that s what we were told in the afternoon. that means to me that someone put eyes on them at some point. remember that forest is very very very dense. it s not like an average park
have guy number two encircled if they don t know if he was with guy number one at the time they took out guy number one? . what s interesting here they don t have evidence to suggest that he left the area and they don t have evidence that seems to indicate that he s here. they have really the hardest piece of evidence this confrontation with richard matt yesterday that turned deadly for that escaped inmate. so now, investigators are working on that as this potential lead a few moments ago, we witnessed this seemingly endless parade of patrol cars. they do plan on saturating this area not only to try to track down david sweat, but also as reassurance for the people who live in the shadow here many people not even staying home the last few days when the search shifted closer to this important of upstate new york. officers determined to stay on the trail of this individual whether he s here or a
enforcement officers are facing as we speak, as they hunt down that lone remaining fugitive escapee in upstate new york. david sweat is still out there in the heavily wooded area just south of the canadian border. he is running by himself now after his partner in crime was gunned down by police. jean casarez is in malone new york where the shootout took place between the authorities and richard matt yesterday. now the hunt is on for david sweat. what are police saying in terms of when they last saw any sort of evidence of sweat s whereabouts? reporter: that is a very interesting question. i always say the devil s in the details. and if you look at the facts that we have now, that press conference yesterday by the governor of new york and also having the new york state police comment, they specifically said that the cabin that was broken into last saturday a week ago today, about 14 miles away from here that property had been left by matt. and then in the cabin that was