The team came upon Matt who was an escaped prisoner from Dannemora. Engaged Mr. Matt who was armed. And Mr. Matt was shot and killed.

You never want to see anyone lose their life, but I would remind people that Mr. Matt was an escaped murderer from a state prison.

This afternoon as has been reported there was a civil complaint. Civilian complaint in the town of Dwayne, there was a gunshot that was fired at a camping trailer. The state police responded to investigate the complaint.

Thank you, good evening to all of you. I want to thank the New York state police for being here, the Department of Correction services, DEC, our partners from the FBI, the U.S. marshals, U.S. customs and border patrol, we have the Vermont…

We have no reason to believe that Mr. Sweat was not with Mr. Matt at the time. But we don't have any confirming evidence that he was either.

The law enforcement partners were then notified and the customs and border patrol tactical team helicoptered in and approached the site.

We need to find these escapees. They are dangerous men. They are killers. They are murders. There is no reason to believe they wouldn't do it again. They're going to be more desperate than ever. So we are doing everything we can. It's a…

there is still a lot of the power lines and the infrastructure supporting the power grid here, that is still above ground.

It's dangerous to be out there now. It's only going to become more dangerous.

We're now going to have roof collapses.

We're looking at another 2 to 3 feet of snow today and then a warming trend on the weekend, which could lead to massive flooding when all of this snow starts to melt.