A Pennsylvania State Trooper was released from the hospital Thursday where he's been for over a month after being shot by suspected cop-killer Eric Frein, who is still on the run from police.
Alex Douglass was accompanied by a police escort as he left Geisinger Community Medical Center after suffering a serious gunshot wound during a shooting outside a police barracks on Sept. 12, The Times-Tribune reported.
"All of our nurses were crying watching him leave," Wendy Wilson, vice president of corporate communications for Geisinger Health Systems, told the newspaper.
Douglass was struck in the pelvis the night of the shooting. He was able to survive by crawling inside the barracks' lobby where another trooper helped him before he was flown to Gisinger, WFMZ-TV reported.
Douglass' fellow state troopers stuck by him the entire time he was recovering, Wilson said.
"They really came in and provided support for him," Wilson told The Times-Tribune. "It was truly inspiring to see all of them together."
Douglass was transported to the Allied Services facility for a long period of rehabilitation.
Though Douglass' wounds were severe, he fared better than Corporal Bryon Dickson, who was killed during the shooting outside the police barracks in Blooming Grove, Pennsylvania.
State police are currently searching for the suspected killer, Eric Frein, who has managed to evade police by utilizing his survivalist skills to live in the forest and rough terrains of the Poconos.
There have been multiple sightings of a person believed to be Frein, and police are still discovering his belongings, but they have not specified what they are, according to WFMZ-TV.
Barrett Township, in Monroe County, has canceled Halloween festivities because Frein remains at large.
