Breaking-David Sweat, New York Prison Escapee Shot and Captured.

Convicted murderer David Sweat was shot and captured today, more than three
weeks after he escaped from a maximum security prison in upstat
Clinton County Sheriff Dave Favro told ABC News that Sweat is wounded. The
extent of the wounds was not immediately clear, but Sweat was receiving
medical treatment from emergency personnel.

Authorities believe Sweat was trying to make a final break to the Canadian
border, officials said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was heading toward the area where Sweat was
captured, an official said.

The man who escaped with Sweat, Richard Matt, was shot and killed by a
border patrol SWAT team Friday afternoon in Elephant's Head, New York, just
50 miles away from the prison, after he was spotted by a law enforcement
officer in the woods.

On Friday afternoon before Matt was killed, officials announced they had reason
to believe Sweat and Matt were planning to head to the border in a final play
for freedom. As a result, U.S. and Canadian law enforcement sent in
reinforcements in an effort to both squeeze the escapees and keep them from
potentially making it out of the country.

Today’s capture marks the first time law enforcement had any concrete
evidence suggesting that Sweat was still in the area. Before today, authorities
had DNA evidence linking him to a cabin that had been broken into, but that
evidence was found more than one week ago.

Matt and Sweat used power tools to cut through the back of their adjacent cells
on June 6 at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, about 20
miles south of the Canadian border, police said. They broke through a brick
wall, then cut into a steam pipe and slithered through it, finally emerging
outside the prison walls through a manhole.
More than 1,000 corrections officers and law enforcement officers were involved
in the search.

Matt was serving 25 years to life in prison after he kidnapped and beat a man
to death in 1997. Sweat was serving a life sentence after he was convicted of
killing a Broome County sheriff's deputy in 2002.