Eric Frein ordered to stand trial in Pa. trooper killing; graphic video shown at hearing

MILFORD, Pa. (WPVI) -- Eric Frein, accused of killing one Pennsylvania state trooper and wounding another back in September, was ordered to stand trial after a preliminary hearing on Monday.

Pike County prosecutors rested their case after presenting several witnesses and surveillance video of the attack.

"Our job is to do the best we can for him. My primary goal would be to save Mr. Frein's life. Obviously there's a death sentence on the table," said Frein's attorney, Bill Ruzzo.

Frein was brought to the courthouse in Milford, Pike County Monday morning, flanked by police officers as he was escorted inside the building.

He appeared pale, frail, and noticeably clean cut compared to the bruised, battered and disheveled man we saw shortly after he was captured in late October.

Inside the courtroom he sat stone-faced as the district attorney played the disturbing video of the ambush.

The video shows Cpl. Bryon Dickson being shot first in the parking lot of the Blooming Grove barracks.

Cpl. Dickson dropped to the ground.

A short time later Trooper Alex Douglass ran from a lower parking lot and tried to help his wounded friend, but he too was shot.

Another surveillance camera captured a wounded Douglass then struggling to move himself into the state police lobby. It appears he couldn't use his legs.

After several minutes go by, troopers pull Douglass to safety. They then work to save Cpl. Dickson, who remained outside the building.

Eventually they pulled his limp body inside.

Dickson's window, Tiffany, sat solemn inside the courtroom, watching her husband on screen.

Frein showed little emotion.

Prosecutors showed a checkbook they say belonged to Frein and two improvised explosive devices that were found in a backpack at a campsite two weeks after the fatal shooting.

They also showed two rifles, a handgun, a computer and two thumb drives at an abandoned hanger where Frein was captured after six weeks on the run.

The D.A. also revealed a letter Frein allegedly wrote to his parents. In it, he talks about a revolution, apologizes to his parents and indicates he did not want to be identified in the shooting.

"It's the start of answers to questions for the public, the victims and their families," Pike County DA Raymond Tonkin said.

Frein possibly faces the death penalty in this case.