Back stories:  Prison Break and Richard Matt Shot

Well, it looks like they got the other guy.  The 22-day manhunt for David Sweat and Richard Matt ended Sunday when the fugitive was spotted just 2 miles from the Canadian border. He made it closer to Canada than Matt, who was found and killed Friday near Malone, New York.  Both men had signs of roughing it in the woods: Matt had bug bites on his legs and Sweat had a backpack stuffed with maps and Pop-Tarts.

New York State Police Sgt. Jay Cook spotted Sweat near a barn in the sleepy New York town of Constable. Sweat bolted, and the lone officer gave chase.

“At some point, running across a field, he realized that Sweat was going to make it to a tree line, and possibly could have disappeared, and he fired two shots,” New York State Police Superintendent Joseph A. D’Amico told reporters.  Sweat, who was unarmed, was struck twice in the torso. No one else was hurt.

Sweat is in critical but stable condition this morning.  Obviously, they’re going to interview him to find out how he got out, what the two of them did, etc.  But it is a pretty cool story.  Thousands of police involved in this manhunt, and in the end it was a lone police officer making his rounds that ended this thing.  Sweat was less than two miles from the Canadian border.

This will be a movie someday.