MILFORD, PA — A judge declared that there is enough evidence for accused cop-killer Eric Frein to stand trial. The decision came after prosecutors played a video of the ambush-style slaying of Corporal Bryon Dickson and the serious wounding of Trooper Alex Douglas. The two officers were seen collapsing to the ground at separate locations after being hit by bullets.

District Judge Shannon L. Muir in the Pike County Courthouse also saw dozens of photographs and heard hours of testimony from investigators and experts in the packed courtroom on January 5. Frein appeared clean-shaven, wearing a fresh haircut; the wound on his nose that he received when he was arrested had healed.

Officers said that following his capture after a seven-week manhunt, Frein confessed to the shootings, and he said they were intended to “wake people up.” In a note to his parents, he wrote that he hoped the shootings would spark an uprising because “only a revolution can get us back to the liberties we once had.”