he ll be in basically 24/7 lockdown. the photoshows sweat bloodied and in full camouflage garb. i heard shots and ran out with my phone. all of a sudden the cops swarmed ed like bees. he was spotted by jay cook during a routine patrol less than two miles from the canadian border. he was alone when this happened. i said you go home tonight and tell your daughters you re a hero. the fugitive was jogging along the road when cook spotted him. that s when sweat took off nearly making it back into the woods before sergeant cook opened fire. the terrain is so dense you can t see 5 feet in front of you. if sweat made the tree line and would have been gone. investigators say sweat and his deceased parter in in crime rich around matt used pepper to try to throw off police tracking dogs. we had difficulty tracking so
that s when sweat took off, nearly making it to the woods when cook opened fire. the terrain is so dense, you can t see five feet in front of you. if sweat made the tree line he would have been gone. sweat and his deceased partner in crime, richard matt used pepper to throw off tracking dogs. we had difficulty tracking so it was effective in that respect. reporter: matt was killed in a shoot out with police. it was an extraordinary circumstance. the first escape in over 100 years, but one escape is one too many. reporter: now, chris, law enforcement saying because of where he was found two miles south of the canadian border they believe that s where he was headed. to give you perspective, he was about 16 miles away from where his partner, richard matt was shot and killed on friday. he was unarmed.
life. this photo moments after the capture shows him bloodied and in full camouflage guard. you can see shots to the chest. i ran out. all of a sudden, the cops swarmed. he was spotted by jake hook during a routine patrol. he was alone when this happened. you go home tonight and tell your daughters you are a hero. the fugitive was jogging along the road. sweat took off, making it back into the woods before sergeant cook opened fire. the terrain is so dense, you can t see five feet in front of you. if sweat made the tree line he would have been gone. reporter: investigators say sweat and matt used pepper to try to throw off police tracking dogs. we did have difficulty tracking so it was effective in
mile and a half from the co nad canadian border. we were pushing the border. where it was, i can only assume that he was going for the border that he. it s been pam three weeks. we had some investigation of the where we thought maybe there s an area on route 41 in malone and we were able to obtain dna discarded material that came back to david sweat. it was pipper strokes and we thought maybe they were using pepper to throw the dogs off the scent. we did have difficulty tracking so it was fairly respect tif in
mile and a half from the canadian border. our concern was that they could have made it to the border, and we were pushing southward from the border. and i think that it was effective today, being in the right area where sweat was, i can only assume he was going for the border that he was that close. and we couldn t be happier that we were able to apprehend him and not lose him. it s been a long three weeks. we had done some investigation of the matt shooting and found there was a camp that we located where we thought maybe they d bed down up in the area of route 41 in malone. and we were able to obtain some dna of discarded material there that came back to david sweat. it was a picnic style pepper shakers. and we believe that possibly these two males were using pepper to throw the scent off of the dogs who were tracking them. and we did have difficulty tracking, so, you know, it was