Crime & Safety
Swat Incident Ends with Suicide in Ross Township
Police responded to reports a man had barricaded himself inside a home.
Ross Township police say an incident, which required the deployment of the North Hills Special Response Team Thursday afternoon, ended in a suicide.
Police were responding to reports that a man, threatening to take his own life, might be barricaded inside a home near the intersection of Mount Troy Road and Mount Troy Road Extension.
A short time after police arrived, it was evident the man had taken his own life.
As a precaution, police closed off several streets in the area and school children on one North Hills bus route were dropped off at the entrance to St. Mary's cemetery in a police officer's care.
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