POTTSTOWN, Pa. – Pennsylvania State Police say escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante has been captured after just about two weeks at the run.
State police announced Cavalcante’s capture on social media on Wednesday and deliberate a news convention pronouncing main points for 9:30 a.m.
Heavily armed police had descended at the South Coventry Township house, final roads and telling citizens to fasten their doorways. Cavalcante, 34, had damaged out of the Chester County prison Aug. 31 whilst anticipating switch to a state jail to serve a existence sentence for fatally stabbing an ex-girlfriend in 2021.
The seize used to be introduced because the manhunt in rural southeastern Pennsylvania entered its 14th day. Heavily armed legislation enforcement officials had looked for the fugitive via an evening of downpours and rolling thunder.
Residents within the 8- to 10-square-mile (21- to 26-square-kilometer) house of woods and farmland had been locked down at house as categories had been canceled at native faculties and police closed roads, looking out cars at roadblocks.
