The Daily Mail offers a piece on the capture of second fugitive in New York.
David Sweat,
the surviving prisoner on the run in New York, has been shot and captured
alive two miles from the Canadian border.
He was shot
twice in the torso after a veteran officer patrolling the area spotted
him brazenly jogging down the road wearing head-to-toe camouflage.
Sergeant Jay
Cook got out his vehicle to question the man before recognizing Sweat. Told to
stop, Sweat broke into a run. When he got near a line of trees, almost vanishing
from sight, Cook opened fire.
Sweat was
treated by first responders at the scene then transported to Alice Hyde Medical
Center, a small hospital in Malone, New York, just 40 miles from Clinton
Correctional Facility, where he broke free on June 6.
At 6.25pm,
Sweat, with an IV in his arm, was wheeled out of the emergency unit in a stable
condition and placed in an ambulance bound for the larger Albany Medical
Center.
The ambulance,
with a heavy escort of state police vehicles, left eight minutes later. Local
residents cheered as he left. 'We got you b*****d,' shouted one
woman.
Sweat's
capture comes two days after his fellow fugitive, double killer Richard Matt,
was shot dead by police after leaving a clumsy trail of candy wrappers and
liquor bottles in his wake as they fled authorities.
It is believed
they were using black pepper stolen from hunting cabins to throw police dogs off
their scent.
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