A man who eluded police for 48 days after allegedly shooting to death a
state trooper and wounding another is due in court for a preliminary
hearing which could decide whether his case goes to county court for
trial.
A Pennsylvania district judge must decide Monday whether there are
sufficient grounds to send the case against Eric Frein, 31, to county
court.
Frein has been charged with shooting Cpl. Bryon Dickson and Trooper Alex
Douglass Sept. 12 outside their state police station in northeastern
Pennsylvania. He was captured Oct. 30 at an abandoned airplane hangar in
the Pocono Mountains.
Authorities say Frein confessed to what he described as an assassination
designed to "wake people up" and result in a change in government.
Dickson was killed and Douglass was wounded.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Frein was identified as a
suspect shortly after the shootings when a passer-by found his vehicle
partially submerged in a small pond near the state police station.
The manhunt, with drew a large police force to the rural area,
frightened residents as there were numerous reported sightings of Frein,
an expert marksman. A team of federal marshals performing a systematic
search stumbled across him about 30 miles from the scene of the shooting
and were able to arrest him.
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