SWAT Team Shoots Suspect

Pittsburgh police fatally shot an armed man after they cornered him in his apartment bathroom, ending a standoff that lasted more than 9 hours and started as a domestic dispute.

As a SWAT team surrounded the building, officers shot the man when he made aggressive movements toward them shortly after noon.

They tried to negotiate with the man, but he did not come out even after police fired several tear gas rounds into the building.

A man who claimed to be the suspect's brother said his brother was distraught over a recent death or deaths in his family. Police didn't release the suspect's name.

Earlier this week, a domestic dispute in Erie ended with a man dying in a house fire. Authorities are waiting for DNA test results to confirm that the body they found in a burned-out building was the man who shot at them early Tuesday morning.

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