$50K Reward Offered For Tips On Trooper's Slaying
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) - A nonprofit group is offering a $50,000 reward for tips about the deadly ambush at a state police barracks in northeast Pennsylvania.
One trooper died and a second was critically wounded in the shooting Friday night at the remote post in Pike County.
Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers posted the reward offer Sunday. It's asking anyone with information to call 800-4PA-TIPS or submit the tip online.
Law enforcement officers from at least three states searched state game lands surrounding the barracks in Blooming Grove on Saturday. No arrests have been made.
The attack killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson of Dunmore, a married father of two. Trooper Alex Douglass remains hospitalized.
"This attack was an ambush. Our troopers were … shot without warning and really had no chance to defend themselves," Noonan told reporters Saturday afternoon. "It's a cowardly attack. It's an attack upon all of us in society."
The troopers were ambushed around 10:50 p.m. Friday as one of them was leaving the barracks in Blooming Grove, Pike County, and another was arriving. The barracks is in a wooded area, surrounded by state game lands.
Law enforcement officials from across the region, including New York and New Jersey, descended on the Pocono Mountains to help with the search on foot and by helicopter.
Dickson is the 98th state trooper to be killed in the line of duty.
Gov. Tom Corbett ordered all Pennsylvania flags at state facilities to fly at half-mast and said he was praying for the slain trooper's family as well as the injured colleague. He canceled all campaign appearances for the day.
Flags will remain at half-staff until Dickson's funeral.
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