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Last updated on Tuesday, September 30, 2014
(CANADENSIS, PA.) - Authorities say a survivalist accused of shooting two state troopers in northeastern Pennsylvania spent part of his childhood in western Indiana and attended school there.
Vigo County Chief Deputy Sheriff Clark Cottom says Eric Frein left the Terre Haute area in the mid-1990s, moving to Pennsylvania, and there's no indication he ever returned. He was born in New Jersey.
Cottom says that authorities have no information that would lead them to believe Frein would come back to western Indiana.
Police believe the 31-year-old Frein is hiding in the woods around his parents' home in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. He's accused of killing one trooper and injuring another. The search has entered the 18th day. Frein, described by police as a survivalist with anti-government views, is believed to be armed with at least one high-powered rifle and might have booby-trapped the woods where authorities are looking for him, authorities said.
The FBI has named Frein one of its 10 most wanted fugitives. He is charged with opening fire at the Blooming Grove barracks during a shift change on the night of Sept. 12, killing Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Bryon Dickson and seriously injuring Trooper Alex Douglass. He has managed to elude hundreds of law enforcement officials looking for him in the difficult terrain.
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