Prosecutor asks jury for ‘full justice’ over barracks ambush
MILFORD, Pa. — A prosecutor asked jurors Tuesday to deliver “full justice” in the trial of a man accused of killing a police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 sniper attack at their barracks, calling the defendant an assassin who targeted law enforcement in hopes of sparking a revolution.
Eric Frein “slithered through the underbrush” in the dark of night, concealed himself in woods across the street from the Blooming Grove barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania, and took aim at Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and Trooper Alex Douglass during a late-night shift change, Pike County First Assistant District Attorney Bruce DeSarro told the panel during his opening statement.
“Right then and right there, Cpl. Dickson’s service and his watch on behalf of all of us came to an end,” DeSarro said.
Douglass, he added, has endured 18 surgeries following the ambush on Sept. 12, 2014. Douglass was in the courtroom Tuesday and is expected to testify.