MALONE, N.Y. — David Sweat, the surviving prison escapee on the run in northern New York, was shot by a state trooper on Sunday, according to three people briefed on the matter. His condition was unknown.
Mr. Sweat, 35, was alive and in custody, according to two of the people.
The shooting occurred after a State Police sergeant saw Mr. Sweat walking down a road toward him, according to one of the people. The sergeant ordered Mr. Sweat to stop, but he broke into a run and the sergeant, a firearms instructor, opened fire, the person said. It was not immediately clear how many shots were fired or whether Mr. Sweat was armed.
The confrontation with Mr. Sweat, near the town of Constable, N.Y., came two days after a federal agent shot and killed the other escaped prisoner from a maximum-security prison in New York, Richard W. Matt. The agent shot Mr. Matt three times in the head with a semiautomatic weapon, according to results from an autopsy released on Sunday.
Graphic: 3 Weeks After Prison Escape, One Fugitive Is Killed 30 Miles Away
The number of officers searching for Mr. Sweat had increased to 1,300 on Sunday, according to the New York State Police, as aviation and K-9 units helped comb through a roughly 22-square-mile area around the towns of Malone and Duane.
Earlier Sunday, the State Police said the search was continuing “around the clock” and despite a pelting rain that prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flood watch for the area through 8 a.m. Monday.
The agent from a tactical unit of the United States Border and Customs Protection agency who killed Mr. Matt, 49, on Friday afternoon opened fire after officials said Mr. Matt, armed with a 20-gauge shotgun, did not put up his hands when ordered to do so in the woods around Malone, N.Y., about 40 miles from the prison.
The autopsy, performed by Dr. Michael Sikirica at Albany Medical Center on Saturday, revealed the toll that weeks on the run in the dense woods near the Canadian border had taken on Mr. Matt, who escaped with Mr. Sweat from the Clinton Correctional Facility. They were discovered missing on June 6, spurring a sprawling manhunt across the state and beyond.
Mr. Matt’s body was covered in bug bites and blisters in his “lower extremities,” the autopsy found, according to a statement from the State Police, as well as “minor abrasions consistent with living in the woods for three weeks.”
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