MALONE, N.Y.—One of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape from an upstate maximum-security prison three weeks ago was shot and killed Friday in a gunbattle with law enforcement officers in a wooded area about 30 miles from the prison, and the other is on the run.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, who was briefed by the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Marshals Service, said Richard Matt was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent from Vermont. Officers are trucking in floodlights to where David Sweat is believed to be hiding, not far from where Matt was killed.
UPDATE: As of 11 a.m. Saturday, inmate Sweat is still on the lam.
Clinton County Sheriff David Favro says Sweat is likely fatigued and no longer has a partner to watch his back or act as a lookout while he rests.
Officers continued to focus Saturday on heavy woods 30 miles west of Clinton Correctional Facility as they looked for Sweat around the area where Matt was killed.
Favro says there is no evidence the pair had split up.
Matt Killed in the Capture
Schumer said searchers closed in on the pair early Friday after receiving a 911 call from a woman who heard someone knock on her door in Malone, which is about 30 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.
