Police: Ambush suspect was military re-enactor

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Source: AP

Schools closed, kids stayed inside and authorities chased down several false sightings Wednesday in their hunt for the suspect in a fatal ambush outside a rural Pennsylvania State Police barracks.

Police released new details about the background of Eric Frein, a 31-year-old self-taught survivalist who authorities said recently shaved his head in a wide Mohawk, evidently as "part of the mental preparation to commit this cowardly act," Lt. Col. George Bivens said Wednesday afternoon.

Frein belonged to a military simulation unit based in eastern Pennsylvania whose members play the role of soldiers from Cold War-era eastern Europe, Bivens told reporters.

"In his current frame of mind, Frein appears to have assumed that role in real life," he said.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/big-break-ambush-probe-suspects-abandoned-suv

[Feral Child]

1. The violence is snowballing

if you'll excuse my clumsy metaphor.




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[AverageJoe90]

2. Makes me wonder what else this nutter may have been up to.

Hope they stop him before he kills anybody else.