Albany, NY – A prosecutor says the inmate captured 22 days after breaking out of a northern New York prison claims to have used no power tools in the breakout.
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That’s contrary to official accounts from soon after the June 6 breakout at the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility.
Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie, who will prosecute Sweat for the escape says Tuesday that the injured cop-killer told investigators from his hospital bed that he started cutting through steel cellblock walls in January using only a hacksaw blade.
Wylie said Sweat told police he had access to a catwalk area in the prison bowels for several weeks before escaping.
Authorities have said Sweat and inmate Richard Matt used power tools taken from contractors’ toolboxes.
Sweat’s condition, meanwhile, was upgraded from serious to fair at the Albany hospital where he was taken after being shot twice by a state trooper on Sunday.
He’s expected to stay at the hospital for a few days while his condition stabilizes.
Authorities say the 35-year-old Sweat was running from a state trooper who shot him twice Sunday afternoon less than two miles from the Canadian border.
The hospital won’t release details of his injuries because of privacy laws.
The other escaped murderer, Richard Matt, was shot three times in the head and killed Friday afternoon about 30 miles from the maximum-security prison the two men broke out of on June 6.
Matt was fatally shot Friday afternoon. Sweat is recovering after a state trooper shot him on Sunday.
what a mazal he is white. Would he been a black escapee Washington would of been upside down for shooting a black man who did not point a gun on the officer.
“The hospital wont release details of his injuries because of privacy laws.”
Surely you jest! This animal has no rights! Hippa laws don’t apply to him as he has shown a total disregard for the law!
why did they shot him, he did not have any weapon.