Pennsylvania Escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante was captured Wednesday following a nearly two-week manhunt that included a search through heavily wooded terrain that slowed both searchers and the fleeing prisoner, officials said.
Danelo Cavalcante, a 34-year-old convicted killer who broke out of prison on Aug. 31, was in custody Wednesday morning, a law enforcement source told NBC News.
Pennsylvania State Police said they would hold a press conference at 9:30 a.m. to share details on his capture.
The 5-foot-2, 120-pound Cavalcante had stretched himself between a pair of parallel walls to reach the roof of Chester County Prison in Pocopson Township, surveillance video showed, and somehow evaded the watchtower guard.
An 18-year veteran guard who missed spotting Cavalcante’s escape has since been fired, a county spokesperson said. That guard, who has not been identified, had a cell phone in the tower, a violation of Chester County Prison policy, according to the county representative.
Cavalcante was convicted on Aug. 16 of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing a 33-year-old former girlfriend. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Cavalcante is also wanted in his native Brazil, in connection to a 2017 murder there.
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