Manhunt: How NY escaped convict was killed by police

A convicted killer who broke out of a maximum-security New York
prison three weeks ago was shot dead by authorities Friday, police
said, as they continued to hunt for his fellow escapee.
Richard Matt, 49, was killed in the upstate town of Malone, less
than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Canadian border, officials
said.
New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D’Amico said
authorities found Matt near a cabin after he apparently had fired at a
passing camper van.
D’Amico did not say why Matt shot at the vehicle, but The New York
Times cited a source as saying he was attempting to carry out a
carjacking.
“We were able to get into the cabin, where we discovered the smell
of gunpowder and realized a weapon had been fired,” D’Amico told
reporters.
“As we were doing the ground search in the area, there was
movement detected by officers on the ground… 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.”
Officers recovered a 20-gauge shotgun from Matt’s body.
D’Amico said Matt’s fellow escaped killer, 35-year-old David
Sweat, was still at large.
The men broke out of Clinton Correctional Facility, about 40 miles
from Malone, on June 6 in a spectacular, Hollywood-style prison
break.
CNN reported that law enforcement authorities have set up a
perimeter in which they are searching for Sweat.
“There are several leads that are being tracked down as we speak
about Mr Sweat and his possible whereabouts,” New York state
Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters.
“But we don’t have anything to confirm where Mr Sweat is at this
time.”
– ‘Killed, dismembered his boss’ –
The inmates used power tools to cut their way out of their prison
cells before dawn on June 6, triggering an intense weeks-long
manhunt across the heavily wooded surrounding area.
“You never want to see anyone lose their life,” Cuomo said.
“But I would remind people that Mr Matt was an escaped murderer
from a state prison. Mr Matt killed two people who we know about.
Mr Matt killed his boss in a dispute and dismembered him.”
The audacious escape sparked a huge search involving more than
1,100 personnel backed by sniffer dogs and helicopters to find the
men, who had been spotted in several locations in recent days in
upstate New York.
Officers found candy wrappers and other items believed to have
been linked to the men and reports emerged that a shotgun was
missing from a remote cabin.
Two prison workers have been charged over the brazen breakout,
and are accused of smuggling tools and contraband items to the
pair in hamburger meat.
Matt and Sweat used the power tools to cut through cell walls and
crawled through pipes to emerge from a manhole in the village of
Dannemora, home to the sprawling prison.
Matt, six feet (1.83 meters) tall with multiple tattoos, was serving a
sentence of 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnapping and
dismembering of his former boss in a 27-hour ordeal.
He fled to Mexico after the murder and killed another American
there, before being sentenced to 20 years and extradited back to
New York.
Sweat was serving a life sentence without parole for murdering a
sheriff’s deputy in New York state in 2002 when he was 22.