McKeesport Man Shot by Resident During Attempted Apartment Break-In
I’ll be honest with you—this wasn’t just another late-night police call.
Around 1:30 a.m. on a quiet stretch of Highland Avenue in McKeesport, things escalated fast. A woman called the police, saying her boyfriend had assaulted her. By the time officers showed up, the man refused to come out of the apartment. He knew why they were there.
Instead of cooperating, he tried to escape—slipping out through a back window as officers moved in. But that wasn’t the end of it. While on the run, he tried to climb into someone else’s apartment through a window…