nearby during the tense, dramatic last moments. here from canada visiting friends when it all went down. i spoke to him before our broadcast. paul, i know you were visiting very close to where david sweat was shot. can you explain what you and the other people you were with saw and what you heard? we arrived at a friend s place for an unscheduled visit. and within about a minute the lady that we were visiting mentioned she heard some gunshots. we saw a police car go zooming by the house. we looked out the window and we saw police officers running across the field. we saw police cars arriving from both directions east and west. and then a flurry of activity with officers running to a certain point in the field stopping just past the big elm tree running back. more officers arriving. and then within about two three minutes i counted 30 police vehicles. i went outside. as i figured everything was pretty safe at that point.
off from the street into the field. the sergeant chased after him. he was afraid that sweat would run into the woods and disappear. he fired two shots. and the manhunt was over. this very rural area has many amish residents. in the aftermath, vehicles were being searched by police. including amish buggies to make sure only residents were allowed back into the area where the capture was made. gene burke and paul meldrom were visiting a family whose home and barn were adjacent to where sweat was caught. you see the barn. 600 feet of the other side of the barn where they anpprehended him. if he made it to the end of the field nothing but forest to the border. across the street from the field lives a family with two children. michael doyle heard the gunshots. when i heard two shots. didn t know if one was him or them. or back and forth. within three or four minutes. swarms of police arrived. he took these pictures of the police cars estimating there
second from a deep dense forest. that forest extends north directly across the border into canada. and the forest continues for some time. he was, within a mile mile and a half of the canadian border and had he gotten into the dense bush i am it would have been difficult to find him. fascinating. paul, thank you so much. my pleasure andersen. more on this and the prison. the fbi has started investigating possible corruption including perhaps a heroin ring. bring you up to speed on that. late word on moves in south carolina to take down the confederate battle flag.
moms saying we ll feel safe having our children sleep in their own beds now. i m wondering this investigation into clinton correctional facility in addition to all the lapses that led to escape did the people in the community, many of whom work at the prison or have worked at the prison have a since of just how bad things were before this escape? i think they had some sense of it. look you said a lot of the community either is working for the correctional facility or noes some one is related to some one. i thin thshgk there is a lot of protecting your own and maybe a little fear in want to turn other people in because of that desire to protect their own. i think there was some people were in the dark about how bad it actually was, but there was a little bit of knowledge going out in the community. wool se ll see what the investigation finds. thank you very much. a taste at the top of the program of how the manhunt for sweat ended. our next guest, paul meldrom was