PITTSBURGH (AP) - Allegheny County police have released the name of a man who shot himself while negotiating with police who were called after the man reportedly abducted a woman and child in Pittsburgh.
Police say 20-year-old Andre Williams Jr., of McKeesport, shot himself about 4 a.m. in Swissvale.
Officers responded at 2:10 a.m. Wednesday to a report that a child had been abducted from a home in Pittsburgh home’s crime-ridden Homewood neighborhood, and witnesses told arriving officers that a man had fled with a woman and a 1-year-old child in a car.
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When police located the car in Swissvale, officers attempted to negotiate with Williams, but he shot himself in the head. The woman and baby weren’t hurt. Two 17-year-olds were later arrested on kidnaping, kidnapping of a minor and conspiracy charges.
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