Pittsburgh police respond to active shooter after residents hear ‘hundreds of rounds’ fired

A shooter fired “a whole lot of rounds” close to a Pittsburgh youngsters’s hospital Wednesday morning, taking down at the very least two police drones as authorities urged residents to avoid the “extraordinarily energetic” scene.

Police have closed down the 4800 block of Broad Avenue and North Mathilda Avenue within the Garfield neighborhood after a gunfight broke out when police have been serving an eviction discover within the space, WPXI 11 reports.

The suspect is believed to be barricaded within the block and has shot down two drones despatched out by regulation enforcement.

No officers have been reported injured as of but.

Pittsburgh’s SWAT workforce has taken over the scene, with officers describing it as an “extraordinarily energetic state of affairs with pictures persevering with to be fired.”

Chris Wilkinson, who witnessed the taking pictures, mentioned officers had arrived on the block Wednesday morning and have been banging on the door the place the taking pictures first rang out.

“They have been banging on it telling him they have been there,” Wilkinson told CBS News. “And after a few minutes of them doing it, they began to kick down the door.

“Then they acquired a sledgehammer and took down the door, and after that pictures began to be fired,” he added.

After the taking pictures started, a number of rounds have been heard reverberating all through the neighborhood, with neighbors describing the expertise as surreal.

“I’ve by no means heard bullets like this,” one neighbor close to the scene told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “One thing you’d see in a film.”

UPMC Youngsters’s Hospital mentioned the taking pictures is going down about half a mile away, with the gunfire posing “no direct menace to sufferers, employees or guests.”

The hospital, nevertheless, famous that will probably be growing safety round its campus all through the day.

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