another clue which responding officers are insigh willett s cabin, they snell gun powder in the air. they step outstyled. there was movement detected by officers on the ground what they believed to be 3:45 p.m. friday a tactical team comes pace to face with richard matt. he s shot three times in the head. shortly after his death, investigators find a camp near route 41 in malone new york. they discover another important clue dna from discarded material that matches david sweat. picnic style pepper shakers, and we believe possibly these two males were using pepper to throw the scent off of the dogs that were tracking them. 3:20 p.m. sunday almost 48 hours after matt was killed a state police sergeant notices david sweat jogging down a road near consequence tan, new york. sweat is shot and captured. a law enforcement officials sell richard matt and david
shot cuffed and under arrest. escaped killer captured after spening three weeks running from the police. a single sergeant is responsible for the takedown. comes two days after sweat s accomplice richard matt was killed. peter doocy is live in con stable new york where all of the ak unfolded and wrapping up this 23-day stay. what s going on this morning? reporter: brian, david sweat was wearing heed to toe camouflage and had been wearing pepper shakers to throw off the scent of the canines. but none of it fooled sergeant jay cook the one out of 1300 law enforcement officers combing the countryside near canada who fanlly spotted sweat jogging down the road and had a choice to make. let him go or shoot. at some point running across a field he realized that sweat was going to make tight a tree line and possibly could have
force. also a firearms instructor. he was on this road. he saw sweat jogging. he called out for him. sweat didn t respond. called out again. sweat made a run toward the treeline. cook now if he made it to the treeline he would escape. he shot him twice in the torso. he is upgraded. people here very relieved. they re finally opening their doors, sleeping at night. coming outside. just enjoying the outdoors. not worrying about two guys on the run. two convicted killers on the run. the district attorney says once he s discharged from the hospital he will charge him with escape in the first degree and burglary and there are a lot more questions to be answered talking to him and trying to get more details, not only on the outside but how he got out. gene palmer the corrections officer, charged with helping contraband get into the two, will be in court. what do we expect out of this
they were able to evade police and stay on the lam for three weeks time. investigators have many questions for sweat, but right now we know he is listed in critical condition, that there is a team of doctors that are working with him, and as of right now, officials say there will be no press conference at the hospital here today, but that could change if there are any developments tamron. miguel obviously people are still mystified how these men got out, but also the incredible way this capture took place last night. just one officer noticing this guy walking across a field. yes, tamron it was a lone officer who was working on the side of a street. he said he saw david sweat jogging in his direction, asked him to stop sweat ignored him. asked him again to turn around. sweat asked him what he wanted and then ran toward the woods. the officer was not able to keep up with him. pulled out his pistol and shot him twice. that s where it all came to aend. one officer, one man as opposed
david sweat was not armed when he was captured yesterday. he did have some things on him though. he had pop-tarts, bug spray, and maps carol. those two last things particularly interesting given that the rough terrain that he were navigating over the last three weeks as they made their way out away from the prison, and just to give you some perspective, he was about two miles south of the canadian border about 16 miles away from where his partner, richard matt was shot and killed. you know 1300 different searchers involved in this carol. at the end of it though it all came down to one state police sergeant who spotted him and was able to capture him and keep him alive. carol? absolutely sara ganim reporting live this morning and praise is flooding in this morning for that state police sergeant jay cook. the hero cop who single handedly captured sweat. a 21-year veteran. he spotted sweat jogging along