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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 5 april 2017
Prosecutor asks jury for ‘full justice’ over barracks ambush

tify.Frein, 33, who eluded up at the night sky and
capture for nearly seven mouthing “help me.” She
weeks, sparking an enor- said he was unable to
mous manhunt that rattled speak because his throat
communities throughout was filling with blood.She
the Pocono Mountains, went back inside to try to
faces a potential death call for help, then returned
sentence if he’s convicted. to ask Dickson what had
His own attorney acknowl- happened.“I’ve been shot.
edged the enormity of the Drag me inside,” he man-
crime. aged to say to her, accord-
“It’s a tragedy I don’t know ing to Palmer.“I looked at
how this county will recover him and told him, ‘I can’t,’”
from,” Michael Weinstein she recounted tearfully.
told jurors in his opening Prosecutors showed sur-
statement. veillance video of Dickson
In this January, 2015 photo, Eric Frein, center, is escorted out of Nicole Palmer, the first wit- crumpling to the ground
the Pike County Courthouse after his preliminary hearing in Mil- ness called by prosecutors, after being shot, followed
ford, Pa. A prosecutor asked jurors Tuesday to deliver “full jus- was working as a state po- by Douglass, who had knelt
tice” in the trial of Frein, calling the defendant an assassin who lice dispatcher that night beside his mortally wound-
targeted law enforcement in hopes of sparking a revolution. and had just arrived for her ed comrade. Douglass
(Mark Pynes/PennLive.com via AP) shift when she heard a loud then crawled into the lob-
MICHAEL RUBINKAM Pennsylvania, and took gunshot and saw Dickson by of the Blooming Grove
Associated Press aim at Cpl. Bryon Dickson on the ground just outside barracks on his stomach —
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) — A II and Trooper Alex Dou- the door. his legs immobilized by the
prosecutor asked jurors glass during a late-night Palmer said she opened gunfire — where a trooper
Tuesday to deliver “full jus- shift change, Pike County the door and found Dick- dragged him through a
tice” in the trial of a man First Assistant District Attor- son on his back, looking doorway and out of sight.q
accused of killing a police ney Bruce DeSarro told the
trooper and injuring a sec- panel during his opening
ond in a 2014 sniper attack statement.
at their barracks, calling “Right then and right there,
the defendant an assassin Cpl. Dickson’s service and
who targeted law enforce- his watch on behalf of all
ment in hopes of sparking a of us came to an end,” De-
revolution. Sarro said.
Eric Frein “slithered through Douglass, he added, has
the underbrush” in the dark endured 18 surgeries fol-
of night, concealed himself lowing the ambush on
in woods across the street Sept. 12, 2014. Douglass
from the Blooming Grove was in the courtroom Tues-
barracks in northeastern day and is expected to tes-
Report: Slain Texas lawman felt

threatened by target of a probe

BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — Attorney’s Office last week,
A newspaper report said a source who asked not
Tuesday that a Texas law to be identified because
enforcement officer shot of the nature of the inves-
and killed moments after tigation told the newspa-
arriving for work had told per. Greenwood was fa-
officials he felt threatened tally shot Monday outside
by a man he’d once tar- a county courthouse build-
geted in a corruption inves- ing in Baytown, east of
tigation. Houston.
The Houston Chronicle also “I believe (this person) pos-
reported Tuesday that Har- es a real threat to my and
ris County Precinct 3 As- my family’s safety,” Green-
sistant Chief Deputy Clin- wood said in an email sent
ton Greenwood was shot Thursday to the county
at close range by a man attorney’s office, accord-
who stepped out from be- ing to the newspaper. The
hind a dumpster and that county attorney’s office
when officers arrived at was handling an admin-
the scene, Greenwood istrative matter related to
pointed in the direction of the corruption investiga-
where the gunman had tion.
fled before collapsing. The source told the newspa-
Greenwood, 57, had per that Greenwood’s con-
shared his concerns about cerns about the corruption
the man he had investigat- case were passed along to
ed with the Harris County law enforcement.q