Armed man shot by police officer at Bethel Park apartment complex
BETHEL PARK, Pa. (KDKA) -- An armed man was shot by a police officer at a Bethel Park apartment complex where officers were trying to serve him with an arrest warrant, and Allegheny County Police are still investigating.
Allegheny County Police said they were called to investigate the police shooting that happened around 10 p.m. at the Evalee Apartments along Dorchester Drive.
According to police, when officers were trying to serve the man with the warrant, he came out of the apartment armed with a gun and he was shot by an officer. Police said the warrant was tied to a domestic incident that happened earlier Wednesday.
The man in the incident was identified as 45-year-old William Adam.
"I heard a bunch of knocking on the door," one neighbor who didn't want KDKA-TV to share her identity said. "I didn't know if it was mine or another one… and when I opened the door, there were policemen out there with their guns drawn."
"They had kept telling him to come out with his hands up," an unidentified neighbor said. "And he'd open the door, and he'd yell up at them."
Police said Adam went into the hallway multiple times. That's when they say an officer shot him.
"All I saw is he lifted his arm, I didn't see what kind of gun or anything," an unidentified neighbor said. "And that's when they shot him."
Adam was taken to the hospital and was listed in stable condition. He's facing charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest.
"I had rode the elevator with that young man, he seemed real nice, but nobody knows, you know?," said Rose Marinacci a neighbor.
Allegheny County Police say anyone with any information should contact them.