Police Shooting Deemed Justifiable

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania prosecutor has ruled that police officers were justified in shooting and killing a woman who fired at them from an abandoned house in Pittsburgh earlier this year. District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. said Friday that the woman fired at officers who ordered her to leave the structure in the Allentown neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Feb. 24. Zappala said six more shots were fired from the building, and the woman then left the house “directing a gun at officers,” who fired, killing her. Zappala said investigators were told that she had mental health issues and her blood alcohol level was “extremely high.”