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'Shawshank' Escapee Had Bag Containing Maps, Tools, and POP TARTS: David Sweat Now in Critical But Stable Condition as Investigation Begins into How he Evaded Police for Three Weeks

• David Sweat was shot twice in the back and captured after a veteran state trooper saw him jogging down a road
• Sgt Jay Cook got out his car to question the man, realized it was Sweat, Sweat broke into a run, Cook opened fire
• Sweat is in a critical but stable condition. He was wearing head-to-toe camouflage, was found two miles from Canadian border
• Was taken to the small Alice Hyde Medical Center, then put in an ambulance bound for Albany for surgery
• Local residents cheered as the ambulance drove off. One woman shouted: 'We got you b*****d!'
• Daily Mail UK, 29 June 2015

David Sweat is waking up chained to an Albany hospital bed in critical but stable condition on Monday morning after his 'Shawshank'-style prison break and subsequent weeks on the lam were ended by two bullets on Sunday afternoon.

Found in the cop killer's possession after he was taken down by State Police Sergeant Jay Cook was a bag of tricks that helped him stay just inches ahead of the law for an astonishing three weeks: it contained maps, tools, bug repellent and Pop Tarts, Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed on Monday.

The governor said it was not clear whether Sweat escaped Clinton Correctional Facility with these supplies or if he stockpiled them while he was on the run from the police.





Captured: Convicted murderer David Sweat, moments after he was shot twice in the torso in Constable, New York on Sunday




Bleeding badly: David Sweat was wearing head-to-toe camouflage, not prison gear, when taken alive in Constable, New York - 16 miles north of where Richard Matt was killed on Friday, two miles south of the Canadian border, and 40 miles from his former prison





Apprehended: Sergeant Jay Cook, a 21-year veteran (right) state trooper, shot Sweat after seeing him jog down the road




Treated: Sweat was treated by first responders at the scene then transported to Alice Hyde Medical Center, a small hospital in Malone




Pictured: David Sweat being escorted into Alice Hyde Medical Center, where crowds cheered


Indeed, the fugitive was hit twice in the torso on Sunday afternoon when Cook spotted him brazenly jogging down the road wearing head-to-toe camouflage in Constable, New York - a sleepy little town just two miles south of the Canadian border.

Sweat is one of two prisoners who escaped from a maximum-security New York prison three weeks ago. The other escapee, Richard Matt, was killed in a confrontation with law enforcement on Friday.
The daring prison break from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora was 'done with facilitators, it was done with cooperators,' Cuomo said.
'This was 'Cool Hand Luke' meets 'Shawshank Redemption,' he said on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe.'

On Sunday, havoc briefly broke out in Constable as many of the 1,300 authorities on the ground in search of Sweat finally closed in on the fugitive.
Sgt. Cook, a 21-year veteran and firearms instructor, got out of his vehicle to question the man, who 'turned as if to say 'what do you want from me,'' according to police. It was then that Cook recognized 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 on Coveytown Road outside an Amish farm, 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, 200 miles south.

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.
He is expected to be in intensive care for at least three days if doctors are able to stabilize his condition, Dr Dennis McKenna of Albany Medical Center told reporters on Sunday night.

Sweat at first appeared stable after he was shot, but the murderer's condition deteriorated after being flown 200 miles to Albany Medical Center's trauma unit.
Emergency, trauma, intensive care, radiology and vascular surgery specialists have been involved in his care.

'There is no concern at all for other patients' safety,' McKenna said, adding: 'His treatment will be consistent with any other multi-trauma patient we receive.'

Sweat's capture came 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.


Addressing reporters on Sunday night, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said: 'The nightmare is finally over... these were really dangerous, dangerous men.'





Apprehended: Police escort ambulances en route to Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone, New York where the second 'Shawshank' escapee David Sweat was taken after he was shot while being apprehended by authorities





Forty miles: Constable, New York is two miles south of the Canadian border and around 40 miles from Dannemora, where David Sweat escaped from Clinton Correctional on June 6. Constable is around 16 miles from where Matt was shot two days before Sweat's capture


It is a triumph, he said, that law enforcement will be able to question Sweat to build detailed picture of how he escaped, where he was for 23 days, and how he eluded authorities.

'This is the first escape in 100 years,' Cuomo emphasized, describing the 'extraordinary' nature of the prison break that prompted an 'unprecedented coming together of law enforcement'.
'If you were writing a movie plot they would say that this was overdone,' he said.

'Hack saws providing by a facilitator in ground up meat, carving a hole to get to catwalks, through a labyrinth of tunnels where they came across a tool box. One of the prisoners knew how to pick the lock, they used the tools then to cut the pipes and break the chains... It was extraordinary circumstances.'

The pair had been present at the nighttime count on June 5, but by 5.30am on June 6 were missing from their adjoining cells in Clinton Correctional's A Block.
They had squeezed through holes neatly cut in the steel wall behind their beds, penetrated a brick wall and a steam pipe, and emerged from a manhole outside the prison's 40-foot wall - prompting comparisons to the blockbuster movie Shawshank Redemption.
'Have a nice day!' they smirked in a note left along the way.

Twenty three days later, Cuomo assured the public that investigations are ongoing, and accomplices will be prosecuted with the full force of the law, before adding: 'Today ends with good news.'
'New Yorkers are tough,' he remarked, 'They stepped up to the challenge and the fear of having murderers on the loose in your back yard. It's nice when it ends well.

'We are going to have a celebration at an appropriate time. We couldn't have had a better ending. We wish it didn't happen in the first place but if it had to happen, this is the way you'd want it to end.'

Since Sweat's capture, it has become clear that he may have been using pepper from shakers in hunting cabins to throw dogs off his scent - a common household trick favored by drug smugglers, and dramatized in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke.

'We did have difficulty tracking so, you know, it was fairly effective in that respect,' admitted New York State Superintendent Joseph D'Amico.

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PICTURED: HERO STATE TROOPER WHO SHOT AND INJURED SECOND 'SHAWSHANK' ESCAPEE DAVID SWEAT By Sophie Jane Evans This is the heroic state trooper who brought down the second 'Shawshank' prison escapee David Sweat following a 23-day manhunt - two days after the murderer's accomplice was shot dead. Sergeant Jay Cook, 47, of New York State police, shot and injured Sweat, 35, after he spotted him 'jogging' down a road in Constable, around two miles south of the Canadian border, on Sunday. The escaped killer - who has been on the run from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora since June 6 - was rushed to a hospital in Malone, bleeding heavily from his injuries, but alive. Cook, a 21-year veteran from Troop B who has two daughters aged 16 and 17 with his wife Carrie, was alone when he opened fire on Sweat at about 3.20pm, shooting him twice in the torso, officials said. Hero cop: Sargent Jay Cook (pictured) brought down the second 'Shawshank' prison escapee David Sweat on Sunday afternoon following a 23-day manhunt. He is pictured, right, with his wife Carrie and their two daughters aged 16 and 17 End of the manhunt: Cook (pictured) had spotted Sweat 'jogging' down the road near Route 30, dressed in head-to-toe camouflage, officials said. The escapee had then broken into a run, prompting Cook to shoot him He had spotted Sweat 'jogging' down the road near Route 30, dressed in head-to-toe camouflage, officials said. The escapee had then broken into a run, prompting Cook to shout at him to stop. When he refused, the trooper, also a firearms instructor, had started shooting, a source close to the case told ABC News. Footage from the scene shows Sweat sitting on the ground covered in blood. On Sunday night, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo congratulated Cook on his 'great police work'. 'I had the chance to speak to Sgt. Cook and congratulate him on his great police work,' he said at a press conference, adding that the trooper 'knew the area very well' and acted 'courageously'. Cuomo added: 'I said to Sgt. Cook, who has two daughters, 'go home tonight and tell your daughters that you're a hero'. This was an extraordinary situation in many ways.' Sgt. Cook's mother, Judy Cook told WPTZ her son is an avid hunter and a 'good shot'. She said: 'We're glad it's all over and we're glad that Jay caught him before he got to the border. 'It's been so nervewracking not knowing where these two men were. 'I couldn't wish for a better son. He is so hardworking.'

Clinton County Sheriff David Favro said: 'This whole escape has been likened to a movie. What better ending could there be than to have a local state trooper end it all. It was a tremendous piece of policing by Sgt Cook.
'The best way to describe the feeling is like after junior prom. You get all hyped up, buying the tux, going to the dance and then at the end of it all you suddenly realize how fatigued you are. We are all fatigued.'

One New York State trooper told Daily Mail Online outside the Malone hospital: 'We're all feeling good. We said we'd get him and we got him.'

Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill who predicted on Friday that the search would be over within 48 hours, said: 'Once Matt was killed you could sense that things were moving toward a successful conclusion.'
Mulverhill added that the foul weather had helped in the search: 'He was cold, wet and uncomfortable. He made mistakes.'

The search has courted the attention and assistance of locals across upstate New York - and even renowned TV personality Dog The Bounty Hunter.

Dog, real name Duane Chapman, has apparently been in the area with law enforcement for days.
Following Sweat's capture he was on the scene to give his version of events.
According to Dog, Sweat was spotted cycling past a group of teenagers at a graduation party - a rumor which police have dismissed.

He said: 'So Sweat's captured... this is all allegedly: two kids at a graduation party had seen a guy riding a bicycle... And I hope this is a true story because those two kids now have a bank account. And they reported it, and the cops were in the area...'

Supt D'Amico insists Sweat was on foot and that Sweat was captured because he was spotted by Sgt Cook, not a member of the public.





Rejoice! Officers looked elated as they relaxed after Sweat's capture. Cuomo said there will be a celebration at the appropriate time





Celebrations: Locals, including 10-year-old Seth Lockwood and his sister Riley, 12, applauded the hundreds of officers on Sunday




Involved: Dog The Bounty Hunter made an appearance on Sunday, having joined the search in recent days




Surgery: David Sweat was bleeding badly after being shot in Constable, New York and transported into surgery at Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone




Life threatening: A law enforcement official told Buffalo News that Sweat was bleeding badly and had suffered 'life-threatening wounds' before being taken to the hospital for surgery

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WHAT NEXT FOR DAVID SWEAT? David Sweat, 35, has been transported to Albany Medical Center for surgery after being shot twice in the torso. He had been serving a life sentence - with no chance of parole - for shooting a sheriff's deputy 22 times then running him over with a car. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Sweat would be facing more charges, including felony escape and promoting contraband in a prison which could add 7 more years to his sentence. 'But as he is serving life without parole, anything we add on isn't going to make much difference,' he said. Wylie said there is no reason to think that Sweat would return to the Clinton Correctional Facility from where he escaped, but is more likely to go to another maximum security prison in the state

It is unclear whether the tip was deemed useful enough to merit the $50,000 reward New York State Police were offering.

The Amish dairy farmer who owns the land where Sweat was shot and captured says she heard gunfire from her house but didn't think much of it until the police cars and ambulance started streaming in.
Verba Bontrager, who has run her family's dairy farm in Constable for the last nine years, says David Sweat was caught just feet from an electrified fence where the cows graze.
She said she was chatting with visitors inside when she heard two gunshots. Her children and a family friend then went outside and heard from a trooper that Sweat was caught.

She said her children had been home alone earlier, and even though she knew police were looking for Sweat, she never thought to be worried. Now, she says, they're all a little shaken.

Local resident Jeffrey Robinson was driving from Constable when he saw the ambulance taking Sweat to Alice Hyde at around 4pm after being shot, and several police cars speed up behind him.
'We pulled over, the Constable ambulance came whizzing by' he said.

Robinson followed the ambulance to Alice Hyde Medical Center where the injured Sweat was offloaded.
'We'll be celebrating tonight,' said Robinson who had been in Constable at a graduation party.
'Everyone here is very relieved.'

A law enforcement official told that Sweat was bleeding badly and had suffered 'life-threatening wounds' before being taken to the hospital for surgery.

The number of boots on the ground in search of Sweat had since increased to 1,300 in the densely wooded expanses just south of the Canadian border.
The added men on the ground, aided by aerial as well as K-9 units, had fanned out across some 22-square-miles around the towns of Malone and Duane





Sweat was almost untraceable before his capture. The last piece of concrete evidence officers found was in a cabin last Saturday

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TIMELINE: HOW DAVID SWEAT AND RICHARD MATT ELUDED POLICE FOR THREE WEEKS - BEFORE THEIR CAPTURE JUNE 5 Matt and Sweat are present at nightly prison count at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York JUNE 6 They are missing from 5.30am count It becomes clear they used power tools to escape JUNE 7 Arrest warrants issued for the two escaped murderers, and $100,000 reward announced for vital information on them JUNE 8 Prison worker Joyce Mitchell is questioned JUNE 12 Mitchell is arrested and charged with promoting prison contraband, she faces eight years in prison JUNE 20 Search jumps 360 miles west to the Pennsylvania border after 'credible sighting' JUNE 22 Search returns to Franklin County, 20 miles from Clinton Correctional JUNE 24 Prison guard Gene Palmer is arrested and charged with smuggling hacksaws into the prison inside frozen meat JUNE 26 Matt is captured and shot dead near Lake Titus in Malone, New York 1pm: Cabin owner Bob Mitchell calls 911 to say he had found a recently-opened, half-drunk bottle of gin on his kitchen table 1.30pm: A camper van owner calls 911 to say a man tried to steal his car and fired shots 3.45pm: Police dogs pick up Matt's scent; officers hear him cough in nearby bushes; he refuses to surrender; is shot three times in the head JUNE 28 Sweat is shot and captured alive in Constable, New York, two miles from Canadian border 3.20pm: Sgt Jay Cook is patrolling the search area and stops to question a man; sees it is Sweat; gives chase; shoots him twice in the torso 6.25pm: Sweat is transferred from local hospital to trauma unit 200 miles south in Albany, New York 10.30pm: His condition is upgraded from stable to critical

Smiling: Franklin County Sheriff Kevin Mulverhill (pictured before Sweat's capture) was confident Sweat would be caught by Tuesday


Earlier, New York State Police released details of Richard Matt's autopsy on Sunday, two days after the 'Shawshank'-style escapee was discovered surrounded by empty bottles of liquor in a Malone, New York, cabin.
He was shot three times in the head.

Officials say Matt also had bug bites on his legs, blisters and minor abrasions that would be expected for someone who had been living in the woods. Toxicology results are still pending.

Matt was shot and killed by a member of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Tactical Unit on Friday.
He and another inmate escaped from a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border on June 6.

More than 1,200 officers spent the night standing guard around a three-square-mile parameter in Malone, New York, as State Police insisted they had the surviving escapee 'contained'.
It was based on their assumption that Sweat was traveling with fellow fugitive Richard Matt, who was shot and killed by law enforcement nearby on Friday afternoon.

Richard Matt was killed by a border patrol team on Friday afternoon after they heard him cough in the bushes next to a cabin they were searching.


Thus ended a three-week manhunt for the convicted murderer, who left a sloppy trail of candy wrappers, finger prints, bottles of liquor and soiled boxer shorts in his wake.

According to a detective, officers strongly suspect Matt was drunk when police eventually tracked him down and shot him dead on Friday afternoon.

The 49-year-old was likely sick and miserable, officials believe after finding his DNA on soiled underwear, an empty bottle of rum, and half-drunk grape-flavored gin.






One of the bottles, they believe, had been opened and consumed just a few hours before Matt broke his own cover by clearing his throat - leading officers to shoot and kill him.
Conversely, Sweat had been almost untraceable.

The last piece of concrete evidence officers found bearing Sweat's DNA was in a cabin last Saturday, where the two fugitives hid out. However, police believe he had also stolen food, drinks and clothing from the cabins. When he was shot, he was wearing a Realtree camouflage shirt and pants stolen from one of the cabins.

Matt and Sweat used tools smuggled inside frozen hamburger meat to escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York - around 47 miles from Lake Titus.

As the search continued, New York governor Andrew Cuomo rejoined the officers to deliver a press conference on Friday night.
He said: 'You never want to see anyone lose their life, but I would remind people that Mr Matt was an escaped murderer. Mr Matt killed two people who we know about.'

Matt was traced on Friday after he tried to carjack a camper van at gunpoint at 1pm. D'Amico told reporters: 'Late Wednesday night we received a report of a break-in of a cabin off Route 41 in the town of Malone. The screen was cut and the window was broken into We recovered evidence from that break-in that indicated Matt was present at that scene.
'We got into the cabin, there was the smell of gunpowder and we realized a weapon had been fired.




'Also there were indications that someone recently had been there and had fled out the back door.
'As we were doing the ground search in the area there was movement detected by officers on the ground, what they believed to be coughs, so they knew they were dealing with humans as opposed to wildlife and a tactical team from Customs and Border Protection met up with Matt in the woods, challenged him and he was shot dead by Border Patrol at that time.'

The shotgun was recovered at the scene, which officers believe Matt stole from one of the two cabins he raided this week.

D'Amico said the plan had been to take both men alive but the Border Patrol team had given Matt that chance but he had refused to comply with their orders.
But he said he did not have full details of what went on when the killer was challenged.

'We will be taking statements from the team that was involved in the shooting,' he added.

Matt's half brother Wayne Schimpf said he was relieved at the outcome. 'Right now I still can't think of him as the Rick that I knew, I can only think of him as the man who threatened to kill me and has killed other people and has escaped,' he said.
After learning he had been shot, he admitted his first thought was: 'Thank God this can finally end for me and my family.'

Schimpf testified at Matt's 1997 trial for the murder of William Rickerson and always feared he would escape.

After the slaying Matt told Schimpf he was planning to go to Mexico, and would kill him if he didn't hand over the keys to his van.

Sweat was serving life with no possibility of parole after being found guilty of pumping 22 bullets into a sheriff's deputy before running him over.

Sweat's mother also gave an emotional interview hours after her murderer son was shot and captured by police.
Speaking to Time Warner Cable News, Pamela Sweat said she was relieved that her 35-year-old son had been caught.

She tearfully added that she had not watched any TV coverage of her son over the past few weeks - but he would not have had any luck had he turned up at her house in Conklin, outside Binghamton.

She said: 'My son knows if he would have came here, I would have knocked him out and had them guys take him to jail by themselves. That's just the way I am.'

Ms Sweat revealed that her son had been badly behaved from an early age - trying to hit his father on the head with a baseball at the age of nine.
She said he had 'got mad' after his father had brought him a fishing pole and tackle box that were not new.

In response, his father had 'told him to get downstairs or he was going to throw him down'.
'[Sweat] went in the bedroom... took a baseball, and threw it through the window, hoping it would hit his dad, and because it didn't, he broke his new TV that he just got for his birthday,' she said.

She added that in subsequent years, her son 'always got in trouble', 'Every time he did I would grab him by the ear and take him to the police station,' she said. Once, he even took a knife into school.

He was imprisoned for life in 2002 after murdering Broome County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Tarsia.

The search for the inmates had been 'really rough' on her and her relatives, Ms Sweat said, leaving her unable to sleep at night and forced to see a psychiatrist weekly.

'It was really rough. I could hardly sleep at night. Everytime one of the cars would move, I'd be jumpy... just hoping that he would turn himself in,' she said, tears forming at the corners of her eyes.

''It's taken a big toll. It felt like a big [weight] off my shoulders that he was captured and he is alive.'
She added that her son 'should have just stayed' in the maximum-security prison.
'He's been in jail all this time. He should have just stayed there,' she said.

And when asked if she had kept up-to-date with the TV coverage surrounding the manhunt, she replied that she does not have cable TV, and instead, heard the details from her loved ones.








Revealed: This is the cabin where Richard Matt and David Sweat hid from law enforcement after their escape


Ms Sweat was not informed of her son's capture at around 3.20pm, but knew 'something was up' after the guards who had been stationed at her house 'just left'.
She added that she feels other people have 'judged' her family, and she would love to visit her son in prison.

Over the last three weeks, the search has sprawled across northern New York - as far as the Pennsylvania border 360 miles away - before officers traced them back to the Canadian border.
Sheriffs now believe the men did not travel far from the prison, and remained on foot.

On Friday night, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrived at 8.30pm to brief reporters on the situation after Matt was shot, and dozens of locals turned up at the State Police Barracks in Malone to hear for themselves what had happened in the woods outside their town.

Cuomo has been heavily ridiculed for turning up at the Clinton prison for a photo op climbing through the same steam pipes that Matt and Sweat used to escape on the day after the break-out.

Prior to their arrests, Matt, came from the Buffalo area. Sweat lived in Binghamton, near the Pennsylvania border.
They got out of the maximum-security prison by cutting through walls in their adjacent cells and then using power tools to get into a maze of steam pipes that lead out to the street.

Prison worker Joyce Mitchell, 51, has been charged with supplying the two men with hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver bit to help their escape. She allegedly hid them in a 12 inch-by-5 inch-by-2 inch slab of hamburger meat that she then persuaded a guard to take to the two men.

That guard, Gene Palmer, 57, is facing charges himself which are not directly linked to the escape. He is due in court on Monday to plead to a charge of promoting prison contraband, two charges of tampering with evidence, one of official misconduct.

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