PRICE TWP. - Rather than spending the eve of his wedding attending to last-minute details, Andrew Killinger slept apart from his future wife in a truck.

After popping out for a few hours Friday afternoon to pick up some decorations and food for the after-party, Killinger found himself cut off from his Price Township house, pregnant fiancee and their 2-year-old daughter.

While he shopped, an army of local, state and federal law enforcement officials descended onto his wooded neighborhood and sealed it off while they continued a massive manhunt for Eric Matthew Frein, suspected of killing state police Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and injuring Trooper Alex Douglass in an ambush Sept. 12.

On Saturday morning, the day of the wedding, Killinger, 27, was still standing on the side of the road, peering past a couple of heavily-armed and armored state troopers guarding the road to his girls.

The couple had been planning to get hitched during a small c eremony in their living room and were expecting about 20 people.

Pre-wedding butterflies quickly morphed into real concern for his family while police searched for the suspected cop killer in their vicinity.

"I'm scared for her," he said. "All the houses on our block are vacant, and the only neighbor we have is gone for the weekend, because he knew what was going on."

But another, albeit lesser, concern was actually pulling off the ceremony Saturday after months of planning.

"We're not even trying to get back in any more," said Killinger's future brother-in-law, Billy Sanders, 30, of Albrightsville, whose truck the pair used as a cramped hotel room. "We're trying to get her out."

The groom quickly changed a post-ceremony meal at a nearby hotel to a wedding and a dinner. At noon, they were still missing one key piece.

Eventually, the bride, Kerriann Sanders, and their daughter Riley were able to secure a lift out from a pair of Barrett Towns hip police officers, and the family hustled to the hotel early Saturday afternoon to make it official before any other bad luck hit.

The memorable day became even more so thanks to the army of uninvited guests roaming their neighborhood and gave new meaning to the phrase "pre-wedding jitters."

"I think everyone's a little nervous before," Killinger said. "But I'm happy. I love her."

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