PITTSBURGH (AP) - Police say a “person of interest” in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer is in custody.
A Public Safety Department spokesman on Thursday night said the person is held on charges unrelated to the death of 36-year-old Officer Calvin Hall. The spokesman did not release the charge or the person’s name and would only say the investigation is ongoing.
Hall died Wednesday at a hospital after he was shot three times in the back early Sunday during a street dispute as one or more parties were going on.
Officials say there was a “strong possibility” that Hall, although off duty, “was in fact acting under the color of the law when he was fatally shot.”
His funeral is scheduled for Tuesday.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.