Danelo Cavalcante, Escaped Pennsylvania Murderer, Captured After Manhunt

A convicted assassin who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail and eluded lots of of regulation enforcement officers for nearly two weeks in quiet, wooded communities outdoors Philadelphia has been recaptured, the authorities mentioned on Wednesday morning.

Officers have been anticipated to launch extra particulars later within the morning.

The fugitive, Danelo Cavalcante, 34, clambered up a wall and made his way out of Chester County Prison on Aug. 31, 9 days after he was sentenced to life in jail for first-degree homicide within the April 2021 killing of his former girlfriend.

The manhunt grew in dimension and urgency as the times unfolded, turning into particularly urgent after Mr. Cavalcante stole a rifle from a storage on the night time of Sept. 11. Officers, who had thought-about him a harmful fugitive all alongside, warned that he was “determined sufficient” to make use of the gun.

Over the course of the search, Mr. Cavalcante was noticed quite a few instances, the authorities mentioned, by folks within the space and in addition within the infrared glare of residential safety cameras at night time. For greater than per week, officers on foot and horseback searched wooded thickets and cornfields south of West Chester, Pa., and drones and helicopters buzzed by the skies, stirring anxiety and fear within the small townships the place Mr. Cavalcante was believed to be hiding.