To escape, Cavalcante scaled a wall by crab-walking up from the recreation yard, climbed over razor wire, ran across a roof and jumped to the ground. Prosecutors say he killed her to stop her from telling police that he was wanted in a slaying in Brazil, his home country. 31 while awaiting transfer to a state prison to serve a life sentence for fatally stabbing an ex-girlfriend in 2021. More officers were being called in to secure and search the area, with police closing roads and stopping vehicles at checkpoints to question motorists and open trunks.Ĭavalcante, 34, broke out of the Chester County jail on Aug. The developments came in the days after Cavalcante slipped out of an earlier search area to the south, stole a dairy delivery truck and went to the homes of onetime work associates in what police say is Cavalcante's desperate quest for help.Ībout 500 law enforcement personnel are now searching or guarding an 8- to 10-square mile area in northern Chester County, a few miles south of Pottstown, Bivens said. A pair of work boots was reported stolen from a porch nearby. Police found footprints and tracked them to the prison shoes identical to those Cavalcante had been wearing. It was, he said, a “crime of opportunity.”īefore that encounter, Bivens said, a motorist alerted police to a man matching Cavalcante’s description crouching in the darkness along a line of trees near a road. And I think he was probably looking for a place to hide, ran for that garage, saw the firearm, grabbed that, encountered the homeowner and fled with the firearm," Bivens said. He didn’t, I believe, recognize that the owner was in there. George Bivens said at a news conference Tuesday morning.īivens said he has no reason to believe Cavalcante was injured when the homeowner fired at him.īivens said he believes Cavalcante was fleeing from pursuers and looking for a place to hide when he saw the open garage. 22-caliber rifle and ammunition, and fled when the homeowner who was in the garage drew a pistol and shot at him several times, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. (AP) - Escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante stole a rifle from a garage and fled a homeowner's gunfire, authorities said Tuesday as police closed roads in a rural stretch of southeastern Pennsylvania, told residents to lock their doors and set up a new search area in the nearly 2-week-old manhunt.Ĭavalcante entered the open garage late Monday in the search area northwest of Philadelphia, stole a. By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MARC LEVY, Associated Press
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