CANADENSIS, Pa. — A rifle-toting man with a mud-covered face who was spotted in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains is believed to be the suspect who has spent more than five weeks on the run after a deadly ambush at a state police barracks, officials said Saturday.
A woman out for a walk Friday night spotted the man near Pocono Mountain East High School in “a surprise encounter” shortly after 9 p.m., state police Lt. Col. George Bivens said.
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Investigators said the man was about 15 to 20 feet from the woman, just off the road where she was walking.
Police believe the man was Eric Frein, an expert marksman who has eluded capture despite an intense manhunt in the heavily wooded area around his parents’ home in Canadensis.
Frein is charged in the Sept. 12 shooting that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson and wounded Trooper Alex Douglass.
Douglass was transferred from a hospital to a rehabilitation facility Friday.
Frein is described by police as a survivalist with a grudge against law enforcement.
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