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Officer Sean Leonard Sluganski has been identified as the officer killed and Officer Chuck Thomas has been identified as the officer shot in the face and neck area, according to the Allegheny County sheriff's office.
Allegheny County police were called to a domestic dispute in the 1400 block of Wilson Street around 12:11 p.m., Allegheny County Police Superintendent Christopher Kearns said at a press conference the same afternoon.
The man was having a mental health crisis and was reportedly armed, the family explained to the responding officers, Kearns said.
"The officers encountered the suspect in front of 1300 Versailles Avenue," Kearns said. The officers asked him to stop but he pulled out a handgun and opened fire, "killing one and injuring another before fleeing," according to Kearns.
The officers were rushed via helicopter to UPMC McKeesport, where one officer later died and the other remains in critical, but stable condition, Kearns said.
A third officer spotted the suspect "nearby at the intersection of Versailles and Patterson and exchanged gunfire with that office as well before they were shot." Kearns said.
"The suspect (is) in stable condition," according to Kearns. "He is known to the McKeesport Police for previous incidents." He was airlifted to a trauma center in Pittsburgh.
The deceased officer was given a long procession of first responders to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office from UPMC McKeesport.
All schools in the McKeesport Area School District are on "an exterior lockdown due to police activity nearby," district officials explained in a Facebook post shortly after the shooting was reported.
The name of the officers or suspects involved have yet to be released nor have the details about the domestic dispute been shared as of 5 p.m. Follow Daily Voice for updates.
Editor's Note: Daily Voice was originally told the shooting happened in the area of the 1300 block of Grandview Avenue around 12:45 p.m., according to emergency dispatch but these details have since been corrected following the press briefing by Allegheny County Police Superintendent Christopher Kearns.
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