A second escaped murderer who made
a daring New York State jail break three weeks ago was shot and
critically wounded Sunday, two days after the first one was
killed, also near the Canadian border.
David Sweat is in "critical but stable" condition at an
Albany hospital, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
Cuomo told CNN that 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 prison in upstate NY 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 Sgt. Jay
Cook on Sunday afternoon in a farm field less than two miles
from the border in Constable, New York.
The daring escape 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.
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