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D.M.T
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Escaped White Prison Inmate Richard Matt Killed By Federal Agents

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#21860728 - 06/26/15 06:05 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)

One of the Escapees, Richard Matt, Is Fatally Shot

By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and BENJAMIN MUELLERJUNE 26, 2015

Richard W. Matt, one of the convicted murderers who staged an elaborate escape from New York’s largest prison nearly three weeks ago, was shot and killed on Friday by a federal agent, two people with knowledge of the situation said.

The authorities encountered Mr. Matt after the inmate, who was on foot, tried to carjack a camper vehicle near Malone, N.Y., a third person with knowledge of the situation said. The driver sped away and called 911, and law enforcement officers responded.

There was a report of a second episode of gunfire as officers pursued David Sweat, the other inmate. The officers did not see Mr. Sweat, but they heard him running. His whereabouts was unclear.

“They don’t have eyes on the guy, but they have a three-mile perimeter around the area,” the third person with knowledge of the situation said.

The authorities came upon Mr. Matt in an area of remote terrain near where investigators discovered evidence in two hunting cabins that indicated the missing inmates had been there.

It marked a violent turn in a sprawling manhunt that began in Dannemora, N.Y., a village near the Canadian border, and soon spread to large swaths of the state after Mr. Sweat and Mr. Matt engineered a daring breakout from the Clinton Correctional Facility.

The escape set off a statewide search on foot and by air, with hundreds of officers marching in tight formations through dense woods and checking on more than 2,000 tips. The hunt at times widened to locations as varied as Vermont, a remote island on Lake Champlain and Philadelphia.

Investigators converged this week on Franklin County after investigators discovered DNA matching that of the two killers in a hunting cabin about 15 miles west of the prison. The State Police said on Friday that evidence was recovered from a second cabin, this time in Malone, that indicated at least one of the inmates had been there.

The breakout, rare in its complexity and precision, relied on a combination of power tools and trickery, as well as alleged assistance from inside and outside the prison.

The men used dummies fashioned from sweatshirts to trick corrections officers into believing they were in bed and asleep. The men, who were in adjoining cells, each cut through the walls of their cells, then made their way into the bowels of the prison, cutting through steel, and emerged from a manhole into a neighborhood of vacant storefronts and clapboard houses just outside the prison.

Officials said the inmates made their escape late on Friday, June 5, or early Saturday, June 6. The corrections officers did not discover that the prisoners were missing until a bed check at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. The next day, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called the escape a “crisis situation for the state,” and announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to their arrest.

The authorities have accused a civilian prison employee, Joyce E. Mitchell, of supplying the men with tools that aided in their escape, including hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver bit.

A corrections officer, Gene Palmer, is accused of giving the men needle-nose pliers and a flathead screwdriver in exchange for paintings by Mr. Matt. Mr. Palmer, who was placed on administrative leave, was arrested and charged with promoting prison contraband, tampering with physical evidence and official misconduct.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/nyregion/new-york-escaped-prisoners.html

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I think there's a thread about these guys somewhere but I don't feel like looking for it for this update.

Police brutality? Or justice served?

Edited by D.M.T (06/26/15 06:11 PM)

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