Police Captures Escaped N.Y Prisoner, David Sweat Alive, After 3-Weeks Hunt (Photos)

 

The surviving prisoner on the run in New York, David Sweat, has fallen into a critical condition hours after being shot and captured alive in a 3-week hunt. He was hit twice in the torso when an officer patrolling the area spotted him brazenly jogging down the road wearing head-to-toe camouflage.

 

 

But despite appearing stable at first, the murderer's condition has rapidly deteriorated since being flown 200 miles to Albany Medical Center's trauma unit. Emergency, trauma, intensive care, radiology and vascular surgery specialists are involved in his care.

 

 

Sweat was captured after being spotted on a road just under two miles south of the Canadian border by Sergeant Jay Cook, a 21-year veteran. Cook got out 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 yesterday, 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.