MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Associated Press

Officials say a Pennsylvania state trooper seriously wounded in an ambush at a rural police barracks is improving but still faces a long road to recovery.

Lt. Christopher Paris said Friday that Trooper Alex Douglass is “working very hard” on getting better.

Douglass left Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton with a police escort on Thursday and was taken by ambulance to a rehabilitation facility.

A sniper opened fire outside the Blooming Grove barracks on Sept. 12, shooting Douglass in the pelvis and killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson.

The late-night ambush has sparked an intensive manhunt for Eric Frein (freen), the 31-year-old survivalist and expert marksman charged in the attack.

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