Captured convict in ‘critical but stable’ condition
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The escaped murderer who was shot by a state trooper near the Canadian border is in “critical but stable” condition at an Albany hospital, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said yesterday.
Cuomo told CNN that David Sweat’s condition initially was listed in stable condition but was downgraded to critical after being flown to Albany Medical Center on Sunday night.
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.
Cuomo said Sweat had a bag containing maps, tools, bug repellent and Pop Tarts when he was shot twice by Sergeant Jay Cook on Sunday afternoon in a farm field less than two miles from the border in Constable, New York, after the state police sergeant spotted a suspicious man walking on a rural road.
The daring escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora was “done with facilitators, it was done with cooperators,” Cuomo said.
Sweat’s capture came two days after Matt was killed in Malone, just south of Constable, while holding a shotgun. Sweat, 35, was unarmed when he was shot twice by Cook as the fugitive ran for a tree line.
The men had been on the loose since June 6, when they cut their way out of the prison, about 45 kilometers from Malone, using power tools. Two prison workers have been charged with helping them.
Clinton correction officer Gene Palmer, charged with promoting prison contraband, tampering with physical evidence and official misconduct, was due in court yesterday. His attorney has said he will plead not guilty.
Officials said Palmer gave the two prisoners frozen hamburger meat that a prison tailoring shop instructor had used to hide the tools she smuggled to Sweat and Matt.
Prosecutors said the tailor shop worker, Joyce Mitchell, got close to the men while working with them and had agreed to be their getaway driver but backed out because she felt guilty for participating in the escape.
Authorities also said Mitchell had discussed killing her husband as part of the plot. She pleaded not guilty on June 15 to charges including felony promoting prison contraband.
Sweat’s capture ended an ordeal that sent 1,300 law enforcement officers into the thickly forested northern reaches of New York and forced residents to tolerate nerve-wracking armed checkpoints and property searches.
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