Escaped New York Inmate Richard Matt Shot, Killed by Police
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This undated photo released by the New York State Police shows Richard Matt. New York State Police(DANNEMORA, N.Y.) — Escaped convicted murderer Richard Matt was shot and killed by authorities on Friday, according to officials, 20 days after he elaborately escaped from an upstate New York prison.
Officials believe the other convicted murder he escaped with from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, David Sweat, is still on the run, sources said.
Matt and convicted murderer Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility early June 6. More than 1,100 officers have been involved in the search.
Matt and Sweat used power tools to cut through the back of their adjacent cells at the maximum security prison, 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.
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.
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