Suspected Cop Killer Pleads Not Guilty

The man charged with murdering a Pennsylvania State trooper in a September shooting plead not guilty during an arraignment Thursday in Milford.

Eric Frein, who spent 48 days in hiding after killing a state trooper and injuring another, appeared in court via video from the Pike County Correctional Facility, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Frein, 31, is charged in connection with the murder of Cpl. Bryon Dickson at the Blooming Grove State Police barracks on Sept. 12. Trooper Alex T. Douglass was also was wounded in the shooting.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for Frein, who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List as law enforcement officers conducted the multimillion dollar search to find him in the rural Northeastern Pennsylvania woods.

Frein’s attorney told reporters after the arraignment that the trial will likely begin some time in 2016.

He was captured on Oct. 30 near an abandoned airplane hangar in Tannersville.

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