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Eugene

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Wed Apr 19, 2017, 10:10 PM Apr 2017

Survivalist who killed state trooper to spark 'revolution' is guilty of murder

Source: Associated Press

Survivalist who killed state trooper to spark 'revolution' is guilty of murder

Associated Press
Thursday 20 April 2017 00.52 BST

A man who hid in the forest under cover of night and opened fire with a sniper’s rifle has been convicted of murdering a state police trooper he targeted at random in hopes of sparking a revolution.

A jury convicted Eric Frein for the attack at Blooming Grove state police barracks in north-eastern Pennsylvania in September 2014. Corporal Bryon Dickson, a married father of two, was killed, and a second trooper was shot through the hips and was left debilitated.

Frein was “literally hunting humans” when he peered at his targets through a scope during a late-night shift change and shot four times, Pike county district attorney Ray Tonkin told jurors in his closing argument. He called Frein a terrorist who sought to change the government through bullets and bombs.

The gunman led authorities on a 48-day manhunt through the rugged Pocono mountains before US marshals caught him at an abandoned airplane hangar more than 20 miles from the barracks.

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Survivalist who killed state trooper to spark 'revolution' is guilty of murder (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2017 OP
Real pathetic....these guys are laserhaas Apr 2017 #1
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