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Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:24 AM Sep 2014

Irony: Subject of PA Manhunt is a "survivalist" yet...

...lived with his parents:

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/09/manhunt-continues-for-eric-frein-survivalist-suspect-in-ambush-murder-of-pennsylvania-trooper-107354.html

CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) - Nine days after a gunman opened fire in a deadly ambush at a state police barracks, authorities have had no contact with the suspect they describe as a self-taught survivalist despite an intensive search that shut down the heavily wooded community where he lived with his parents.
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logosoco

(3,208 posts)
2. Maybe dad should not be bragging right now about how he taught his son
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:35 AM
Sep 2014

how to shoot and he "doesn't miss".

NBachers

(16,998 posts)
4. Haven't heard the "T" word yet; I guess this guy's political motivations don't qualify him as a
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:37 AM
Sep 2014

Terrist.

malaise

(267,790 posts)
6. Just another good boy gone bad
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:45 AM
Sep 2014

not like that 'brown fellow' in Ferguson who didn't shoot anyone and had his hands in the air. Of course this saint killed a cop and sent another one to the hospital but remember he's no terrorist.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
11. Its getting colder, sooner or later he will get bolder...
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 11:19 AM
Sep 2014

he may have planned this for months but time and weather will betray him.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
13. Bolder, or...
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 11:25 AM
Sep 2014

smarter.

I guess if I were that guy, I'd be thinking of the coming winter and maybe how it would make sense to move south.

Like maybe into the swamps/bayou area along the southern coast.


Or maybe, OTOH, he would expect the people chasing him to expect that he would have that idea.


I dunno. I've never been a fugitive.

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