One of the 'Shawshank' escapee Richard Matt has been killed.
The breakthrough came Friday shortly before 2 p.m., when a person towing a camper head a loud sound and thought a tire had blown out. Finding the tire intact, the driver drove another eight miles before discovering a bullet hole.
Authorities said Matt was shot by a border patrol agent when he failed to comply with orders in the woods near a cabin where a shot had been fired earlier in the day at a camping trailer. A 20-gauge shotgun was found on Matt, though he didn’t fire it at officers, authorities said.
"They verbally challenged him, told him to put up his hands. And at that time, he was shot when he didn't comply," New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said at a news conference late Friday.
The 49-year-old was likely sick and miserable, officials believe after finding soiled underwear, an empty bottle of rum, and half-drunk grape-flavored gin in his wake
There is search for David Sweat as they concede he may have slipped past them once again. More than 1,200 officers spent the night standing guard around a three-square-mile parameter in Malone, New York, as State Police insisted they had the surviving escapee 'contained'.
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