Officers search for New York escapee Sweat; authorities kill his partner in crime - Fox 59
MALONE, New York (June 27, 2015) — Convicted murderer David Sweat is still on the lam. And in the darkness of early Saturday, hundreds of officers continued searching the dense woods in upstate New York for the now lone escaped inmate. His prison break partner Richard Matt, also a convicted murderer, was shot dead Friday, one day after his 49th birthday. Since Sweat and Matt broke out of the maximum security prison in Dannemora together — and appeared to stick together on their flight from the law — authorities were hopeful they could be right on Sweat’s heels after encountering Matt. Searchers had at times followed two sets of footprints, but when they gunned Matt down, there was no sign of Sweat nearby. So, on all-terrain vehicles and in helicopters, they continued looking for the man who has eluded them for three weeks, using infrared vision devices to peer through the night. If not for some gunfire, and the urge to cough, Matt, too, may have continued to elude the 1,100 officers from multiple law enforcement agencies, who, for three weeks, have combed brush, field and forest in the dark green shadows of the rolling... But then on Friday, owners of a recreational vehicle driving down Route 30 heard a bang that eventually led officers to Matt. Source: fox59.com
