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Escaped Inmate David Sweat Shot Near Canadian Border

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He got lucky, he is returning to prison.

Escaped Inmate David Sweat Shot Near Canadian Border - NBC News

Convicted murderer and escaped inmate David Sweat was shot near the Canadian border Sunday, multiple New York State officials with knowledge of the investigation and manhunt told NBC News.

Senior officials said Sweat was wounded but is alive and was taken into custody just a few miles south of the Canadian border.
 
American police dont always shoot to kill? Black community will love this lol.
 
Thought for sure those guys would have made it to Canada by now. I guess the people in NY can rest easy now that they got them.
 
Only 2 miles from Quebec border, he almost made it :mrgreen:

wouldn't have mattered. Quebec would have shipped him back before he could even get a soda at the local Esso station. i figured they would head to Mexico, but i guess that option disappeared when the getaway driver chickened out. they both seemed like really bad guys, though, so i wasn't rooting for them.
 
Both inmates were caught so close to where I grew up just across the border. I am very familiar with those parts of upstate NY.
 
He got lucky, he is returning to prison.

Escaped Inmate David Sweat Shot Near Canadian Border - NBC News

Convicted murderer and escaped inmate David Sweat was shot near the Canadian border Sunday, multiple New York State officials with knowledge of the investigation and manhunt told NBC News.

Senior officials said Sweat was wounded but is alive and was taken into custody just a few miles south of the Canadian border.

I'm not sure I agree with that. He already had it made in prison, as far as prison goes, before he broke out. Cooked his own meals, cable TV, Internet, wore his own clothes, got to get his dick wet in a female prison worker (though she is fugly), etc., etc., which should have NEVER been allowed in the first place for a convicted murderer. Now they'll probably make sure his life is a living hell in prison. The easy road for him would have been to be shot and killed, like Matt was.
 
Three weeks and they only got 30 miles away? I don't know that area at all so am not certain how easy it would have been to get some distance away.

Two shots and he is alive! Dammit TurtleDude why weren't you in that area with your gun?
 
I'm not sure I'd use the word "lucky". Something tells me he won't be living on the honor floor anymore.
 
An amazing thing about this capture is it seems to have come about by his partner taking a shot at, and hitting, a van driven by a civilian citizen.

After three weeks of successfully being on the run, WTH was with breaking cover in that manner?

I suspect by now these guys were pretty fatigued and perhaps getting sloppy at best, and delirious & delusional at worst.

I seem to recall a bottle of whiskey was consumed at the cabin where the shot was fired - it would be pretty ironic if this thing all came to an end due to a drunken moment! (after many months of planning & effort)
 
I hope he reveals how it all unfolded I am morbidly curious how they stayed undiscovered for so long
 
ThIs is gonna make for one helluva movie.

Too bad we know the ending already

Meh, that doesn't seem to matter. We already knew the ending to Apollo 13, Captain Phillips, Lone Survivor and American Sniper, but all of those films still did well.
 
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