david sweat for killing sheriff's deputy kevin tarcia.ee, the escape has been traumatic. >> i was pretty much in shock when i heard that david sweat had escaped from state prison maximum security it was very shocking. it brought back all of the memories and all of the thoughts and the terrible horrific torture that they have inflicted on kevin and it brought all back terrible memories of all of that. >> these guy are dangerous. these guys are two guys as dangerous as you are going to get. >> reporter: martin horn former commissioner of the new york city department of corrections an expert on what happens inside prisons. >> it could be over the years the guys have been in prison they worked on a maintenance detail prisons use the prisoners to maintain the prison everything from painting the balls to fixing the leaks to rewiring an electrical socket. and so they may well have actually been in the pipe chase area that everybody seems to be so fascinated with. >> reporter: this is far from the first time an inmate attempted a daring prison es

you see the way he killed kevin tarcia had no remorse for it.ple. >> sure. >> i think if there's any guns involved it will be one hell of a shootout. >> no kidding. >> it does sound like they might have gotten some help on the inside. they interviewed a woman who worked at the prison because they got power tools, sheriff. and they also had to know their way around inside the prison. >> yeah. i mean that's all up to the department of corrections to figure out on that end. i don't know all the ins on that side. i'm sure people are saying the same thing. how could they do this without help from the inside? >> does he have a lot of resources in the area? >> no. >> people family, anybody? >> there's family that still live in our area. officers have been out and have interviewed them involved in the case. from our area alone, 50 officers including sheriff's deputies state police fbi and u.s. marshals. >> let's hope they get them and get them today. thank you very much for joining us today live. >> thank you for having me on. >> you betya. >> 7:21 here

what it means for the people that kept their doors locked, children inside and family of deputy kevin tarcia. shot and killed in 2002 by david sweat. early on in this thing, three weeks ago, an opportunity to speak to supervisors say that this escape basically tore open a wound that took years to heal. knowing that this very dangerous cop killer was on the run. so if anybody wanted to see david sweat back behind bars, it was not only deputy's family but also colleagues and now the people here in upstate new york, poppy, again, a very active scene to make the way down this road past that roadblock and see really a very active crime scene still. investigators trying to make sure that they covered all their bases here and then call it interesting or really just call it quite ironic. we are now told by new york state police richard matt, the inmate that was shot and killed by police officers two days ago, was taken to albany medical center for the autopsy to be done and now his injured alleged accomplice taken to the same facility after just a very remarkable turn of events here after three week