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And sweat then again turned back to him and said, i m good, bro. and kinda raised his hands up like this framing his face a little bit as if to say, nothing to see here. reporter: but when the officer called to him again, sweat ran. cook jumped out of his vehicle, drew his weapon, and now is in in a dead run pursuit behind sweat who probably had about no less than a 35 or 40 yard lead on him by that point. and cook actually told him, i ll shoot ya if you don t stop. cook stopped, quickly steadied himself, and squeezed off one round. that one round struck david sweat in the upper torso, and sweat stumbled. reporter: but sweat continued to run, so the officer fired again. that round also struck sweat in the upper torso, and dropped him right in the field. reporter: the officer had stopped david sweat with two incredible shots. he secured sweat and administered first aid. at last the manhunt was over. reporter: what was your reaction when you heard that david sweat h ....
Little bit as if to say, nothing to see here. reporter: but when the officer called to him again, sweat ran. cook jumped out of his vehicle, drew his weapon, and now is in in a dead run pursuit behind sweat who probably had about no less than a 35 or 40 yard lead on him by that point. and cook actually told him, i ll shoot ya if you don t stop. cook stopped, quickly steadied himself, and squeezed off one round. that one round struck david sweat in the upper torso, and sweat stumbled. reporter: but sweat continued to run, so the officer fired again. that round also struck sweat in the upper torso, and dropped him right in the field. reporter: the officer had stopped david sweat with two incredible shots. he secured sweat and administered first aid. at last the manhunt was over. reporter: what was your reaction when you heard that david sweat had been recaptured? the day that they caught david sweat, i had been saying my prayers to god, to just let them find him and ....
Saw david sweat. after sweat ran, the sergeant shot him. that is according to law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. it does not appear according to this official that sweat was armed. tom, to you, learning it does not appear according to a law enforcement source that sweat was armed. does that surprise you? yes, that surprises me. but it doesn t alter the fact that the police officer did the right thing. we know they took a couple shotguns and two or three hunting knives from the cabin last saturday. you would have to presume that matt was not in possession of all of those items when he was shot. you would, you know have to assume that he had the other weapons or at least one of the other ones. again, even with his bare hands, if he went into a house and took a family hostage, he could kill them very easily with whatever tools or knives they had on hand. there is no way once they had ....
David sweat was captured. good morning. good morning, sergeant jay cook was patrolling these rural roads very close to the canadian border by himself. he didn t have a tactical team with him he didn t have an automatic rifle. he was alone, and officials say because he was alert and because he was such a good shot this 23-day manhunt is fiepally over. david sweat is hospitalized in protective custody in albany after being shot and arrested sand afternoon, just a mile from the canadian border and 30 miles from the prison he escaped. according to authorities, shortly after 3:00 p.m. jay cook saw a suspicious man joshing down a road. when confronted sweat ran across an open field and cook opened fire to prevent him from reaching a heavily wooded area. bang bang. the end of the manhunt coming close to michael doil s window. where have never seaver 40 or 50 cop cars and 300 or 400 guys ss ....