Pittsburgh police negotiators console man who threatened to jump from East Ohio Street overpass

East Ohio Street is the central business district in Pittsburgh’s Deutschtown neighborhood in the North Side. Saturday, April 2, 2022.

A negotiation with a man in crisis that spurred a seven-hour closure of Route 28 on the North Side ended successfully at about 9 a.m. Saturday morning, police said.

The situation started about 2 a.m., when a man threatened to jump from the East Ohio Street overpass in the city’s Deutschtown neighborhood. Route 28 was closed until about 9 a.m., when the man was taken into custody and transported to a hospital for treatment, police said…

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