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| Active shooter at Pittsburgh synagogue, victims reported | |
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| Police are responding to an active shooter situation at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, according to local reporters at the scene. | Police are responding to an active shooter situation at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, according to local reporters at the scene. |
| The shooter is reportedly inside the Tree of Life synagogue on Wilkins Avenue. He apparently shot at officers when they arrived at the scene, forcing them to use their vehicles as shields. | |
| The synagogue was reportedly full of people for a Saturday service when the shooting began. Police received several calls from people barricaded inside the building. | |
| Details of dramatic police standoff with the shooter are emerging via police radio broadcast on the Broadcastify website. An officer at the scene has told his colleagues over the police radio that there are "four down in the atrium." Another one said "I've got one alive." | |
| "We need armor," one police officer is heard saying, while another one requested to "open up the back for rescue." | |
| A SWAT crew was dispatched to the scene and there was a request for breaching equipment on the second floor, stating that there were rooms with locked doors. An "explosive device" was also mentioned by the officers on the radio. | |
| "Spontaneous negotiations" are ongoing with the gunman, with officers giving him orders to crawl out of the space he is in. | |
| Local authorities have confirmed the shooter situation. “ALERT: There is an active shooter in the area of WILKINS and Shady. Avoid the area,” the Pittsburgh Public Safety Department tweeted. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto was on his way to the location of the incident. | |
| The department has advised media to stop calling its cell phones. "It is draining batteries and interfering with communications." | |
| A photo posted online by WTAE journalist Chris Lovingood showed police vehicles at the location. | |
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