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Police gun down New York prison escapee Richard Matt
New York, June 27
Police on Friday gunned
down one of the two convicted killers who escaped from a prison in
northern New York state, The New York Times said, citing unnamed
official sources.
While Richard Matt is dead, the manhunt continues for fellow escapee David Sweat, Efe news agency reported.
Authorities
tracked down Matt in a wooded area of Franklin County, which borders
Canada, where investigators earlier found evidence inside hunting cabins
indicating the presence of the two escapees.
Police continued to
search for Sweat in the same general area, located 43 km northwest of
the Clinton Correctional Facility, from where the pair escaped in the
early hours of June 6.
Hundreds of local, state and federal law enforcement personnel have been involved in the search for the two fugitives.
Matt,
49, received a sentence of 25 years to life for torturing, killing and
dismembering his boss in Tonawanda, New York, in 1997.
The
35-year-old Sweat was serving a life sentence for the July 2002 fatal
shooting of sheriff's deputy in Broome County, New York.