David Sweat, Inmate Shot After Escape, Moved From NY Hospital To Prison
ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- An escaped murderer who was shot after three weeks on the run has been moved from a New York hospital to another maximum-security prison.
The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says David Sweat was moved from the Albany Medical Center early Sunday. He was taken to the Five Points Correctional Facility, in Seneca County. The prison is about 200 miles west of Albany.
Officials say Sweat initially will be in the infirmary and then housed in a single cell in a 23-hour confinement unit.
Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border, in early June.
Matt was killed by police June 26. Sweat was captured June 28 after being shot by a state trooper as he fled through a field near the Canadian border.
At around, 3:20 p.m. on June 28, New York State Police Sgt. Jay Cook saw a suspicious man wearing hunting clothes jogging down a road in the town of Constable, about a mile and a half from the Canadian border and 30 miles from the prison, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
Cook called out to the man and gave chase when he recognized the man as Sweat.
At that point, Sweat took off running across a field, and was about to approach a tree line where he might have vanished, according to New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico.
Cook shot the man twice in the torso, Cuomo said. Sweat was then taken into custody and hospitalized.
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