The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Pittsburgh police said a county sheriff's deputy shot and killed a gunman who held officers off after they responded to reports that the man was acting erratically with a gun in East Liberty today.
Pittsburgh police Assistant Chief Maurita Bryant said the deputy fired once. Police did not immediately identify the deputy or the suspect, who kept police at bay for more than an hour when he retreated to a porch and refused to drop his gun.
A police investigator said police were called on a report of a man with a gun. He said police tried to contain him, but he came at deputy with the gun and the deputy was forced to fire.
Clark Hummel, 54, who owns a business in East Liberty, couldn't get to his truck, parked on Euclid, he said. Hummel said he saw the gunman before police shot him. "He was just pacing around with a gun in his hand. He was talking to someone on a cell phone, then he threw it down. He wasn't yelling or screaming, he was just pacing around."
The shot ended the incident about 10:45 a.m. Police taped off the area near the man's house as a crime scene.
The man, wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, stood on his porch starting at about 9:30 a.m., and police and SWAT officers surrounded the area, blocking streets and ordering people in the area surrounding the 500 block of North Euclid Avenue to stay in their homes.
The gunman was taken to UPMC Presbyterian hospital, and Bryant confirmed he is dead.
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