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We start with the time line of david sweat's takedown and gary tuchman. >> reporter: the word came over police radios around 3:20 p.m. gunshots fired. scores of police raced to the ironically named town of constible, there was hope david sweat had been captured and fear police officers or civilians could have been hurt. one, only one officer was already at the scene. new york state trooper sergeant jay cook. >> as he was driving down the road he spotted a male who was basically jogging up along the side of the road. he approached him. and as he exited the car the man turned to him, he says hey...

Border. spotted walking along a rural road by sergeant jay cook who shot the convicted cop killer after he started running. >> he was just about at the tree line. if he would have got in that tree line, they probably wouldn't have got him. >> reporter: the takedown happening just 48 hours after matt was shot and killed by officers. >> this is the camper where matt was hiding. >> sweat claiming the two decided to separate just days earlier. >> sweat felt that matt was slowing him down, as a matter of fact. >> did you help richard matt and richard sweat escape prison? >> one of the prison worker...

Instead. sweat said he? up with matt five days before matt was killed by a team member because matt was older, not feeling well and slowing him down of he almost made to it canada. a mile and a half from the bored where the police sergeant jay cook alone on patrol spotted sweat. tried to talk to him. recognized him and then chased him and shot him twice in the back when he said he got close to a tree line. today we saw the clinton county d.a. i asked him how he would handle the shooting investigation. >> if it wasn't my county, i would they ever present it to the grand jury and let the jury ma...

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. i...

Up with matt five days before matt was killed by a team member because matt was older, not feeling well and slowing him down of he almost made to it canada. a mile and a half from the bored where the police sergeant jay cook alone on patrol spotted sweat. tried to talk to him. recognized him and then chased him and shot him twice in the back when he said he got close to a tree line. today we saw the clinton county d.a. i asked him how he would handle the shooting investigation. >> if it wasn't my county, i would they ever present it to the grand jury and let the jury make the determination. >>...