Crime & Safety
Man Dead In Western PA Officer-Involved Shooting
Police shot and killed a man in a Western Pennsylvania township Tuesday night.
FAYETTE COUNTY, PA — A Redstone Township man is dead after being shot by police on Tuesday night.
The Pennsylvania State Police said Redstone police responded to a home on Lyndale Road shortly after 9 p.m. for a welfare check on a suicidal man. Upon arriving, officers "came in contact with the man," state police stated in a release Wednesday.
The man was treated by medics at the scene but died from his wounds shortly thereafter.
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The man was identified as Christopher Hackney, 27.
State police said Redstone Township officers were involved in the shooting but did not indicate what led up to it.
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The investigation is ongoing.
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