but for the time being they just they were just laying low. sure was. well, it s good that this manhunt is now over, the nightmare is governor cuomo is now over. gerard mccann, thank you for being with us. appreciate it. thank you. so the man who shot and captured david sweat, veteran new york state trooper jay cook is being called a hero today, and rightly so. this all happened 16 miles from where richard matt was shot and killed on friday, less than two 2 miles from the canadian border. sergeant cook and i think we have a picture of him, you can see him on the right, he was alone on routine patrol when he spotted sweat jogging. so he was out on the open on the road. cook tried to confront sweat. the trooper chased after him stopping him with two shots before he could disappear into the woods. the governor congratulated sergeant cook on the capture.
dogs but the end of the day it s going to come down to good police work and that s what happened, carol. absolutely. sara ganim reporting for us this morning. we cannot go on until we honor jay cook. the hero cop who alone took down david sweat before he disappeared in the woods. here he is a 21-year veteran. he spent most of his career in malone new york. he spotted sweat jogging along the road less than two miles from the canadian border. sergeant cook called out to sweat. the fugitive ran, cook gave chase and then he opened fire. new york governor andrew cuomo. i said to sergeant cook who has two daughters 16 and 17 i said well you go home tonight and tell your daughters that you re a hero with teenage girls, that will probably last a good 24 hours, then you ll just go back to being a regular dad. sergeant cook s mother told
hospital and sweat is talking to investigators according to new york governor andrew cuomo telling them that the original plan was civilian prison employee joyce michelle to pick them up when they emergeted from that manhole. kill her husband and drive to mexico and live happily ever after. when she didn t show up, the pair decided to try to get to canada. they split up last monday, according to sweat because he says matt is older and out of shape was slowing him down. and sweat nearly made it. he a lewding the manhunt involving 1300 county, state and federal officers and allegation for 23 days in part by using pepper that you could find in your kitchen ton throw these canines off of his trail. sweat, of course was caught yesterday, just a mile and a half from the can a noddian border when was spotted by new york state police sergeant jay cook who was by himself on patrol and spotted sweat jogging along a road in fallujah clothing.
hospital and sweat is talking to investigators according to new york governor andrew cuomo telling them that the original plan was civilian prison employee joyce michelle to pick them up when they emergeted from that manhole. kill her husband and drive to mexico and live happily ever after. when she didn t show up, the pair decided to try to get to canada. they split up last monday, according to sweat because he says matt is older and out of shape was slowing him down. and sweat nearly made it. he a lewding the manhunt involving 1300 county, state and federal officers and allegation for 23 days in part by using pepper that you could find in your kitchen ton throw these canines off of his trail. sweat, of course was caught yesterday, just a mile and a half from the can a noddian border when was spotted by new york state police sergeant jay cook who was by himself on patrol and spotted sweat jogging along a road in fallujah clothing.