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Escaped inmate David Sweat shot and captured: local media

Xinhua, June 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

New York's second escaped inmate, David Sweat, has been shot and captured close to the Canadian border, local media reports said on Sunday.

Sweat, 34, was shot and wounded by law enforcement in the town of Constable, which was on the perimeter of the search area, CBS quoted sources as saying that he is being transported to Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone.

No officers were injured in the apprehension.

ABC News quoted Clinton County Sheriff Dave Favro as saying that the extent of the wounds on Sweat was not immediately clear, but he was receiving medical treatment.

The army of officers have been searching for the fugitive in the dense and boggy woods of upstate New York where his fellow fugitive, Richard Matt, was fatally shot two days earlier.

Authorities believe Sweat was trying to make a final break to the Canadian border, officials said.

Matt, 48, who escaped with Sweat, was shot and killed by a border patrol team Friday afternoon in upstate New York, just 50 miles away from the prison, after he was spotted by a law enforcement officer in the woods.

It's been more than three weeks after the two escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in upstate New York. It is the first escape from that prison in the prison's over 100 years of history.

The men are believed to have escaped through a hole in the back of their cells, which are made of steel, and then cut through a steam pipe and emerged from a manhole to freedom.

Local media reports reported that power tools smuggled in a frozen chunk of hamburger meat allowed the pair to construct an elaborate escape route.

Two prison workers, Joyce Mitchell, a civilian prison employee, and prison guard Gene Palmer, were charged in connection with the inmates' escape.

According to the police, Sweat was serving a sentence of life without parole following his conviction for one count of Murder 1st Degree after he caused the death of a Broome County Sheriff's Deputy on July 4, 2002.

Matt was serving a sentence of 25 years to life following his conviction in Niagara County for three counts of murder, three counts of kidnapping, and two counts of robbery after he kidnapped a male victim and caused his death by beating him in 1997. Endite