Frein's jury to come from Philadelphia area

MILFORD — The jury for the trial of accused trooper killer Eric Frein’s will be selected from Chester County, in the Philadelphia area, according to a document filed Aug. 15 by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
The actual trial will take place in Pike County.
Frein’s attorney, Michael Weinstein of Weinstein & Zimmerman, earlier in the year asked for a change of venue for the trial because he felt he wouldn’t get a fair trial in the Pike, where the ambush shooting of two state troopers — Cpl. Bryon Dickson, who died, and Trooper Alex Douglass, who was seriously wounded — took place, outside their Blooming Grove barracks, in September 2014.
Judge Gregory Chelak decided that the trial will take place in Pike County, but that the jury would be brought in from outside.
Court clerks in both Pike and Chester counties initially said they didn't know about the ruling.
Pike County District Attorney Raymond Tonkin is seeking death penalty in the case.
Frein was captured after a monthlong, $11.7 million manhunt involving national-level search teams and the FBI. He was captured in an unused airport hangar after hiding out in the woods.