{"id":254922,"date":"2026-07-29T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254922\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:42:09","slug":"pittsburgh-public-schools-chief-of-staff-facing-assault-strangulation-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254922\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Public Schools\u2019 chief of staff facing assault, strangulation charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Public Schools\u2019 chief of staff is facing assault and strangulation charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Lamar Blackwell, 31, of Pittsburgh, was charged in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to court documents, Blackwell was arrested on Sidney Court after a woman told police he grabbed her by her wrist and choked her. Police said the woman had redness on the left side of her neck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 reached out to Pittsburgh Public Schools for comment. A spokesperson for the district said: <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThe District is aware of a personal legal matter involving Mr. Blackwell. The matter remains before the court, and Mr. Blackwell is complying with the court-established process. He continues to serve in his role while the legal process moves forward. Out of respect for the judicial process and the privacy of those involved, the District will not comment further.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A preliminary hearing for Blackwell was originally scheduled on April 23. It has been postponed several times and is now expected to happen in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Public Schools\u2019 chief of staff is facing assault and strangulation charges. Lamar Blackwell, 31, of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3229,108648,19208,108367,73,75,74,940,108646,108647,13842],"class_list":["post-254922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-charges","tag-charges-filed-against-pittsburgh-public-schools-chief-of-staff","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-lamar-blackwell","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-public-schools","tag-pittsburgh-public-schools-chief-of-staff","tag-pittsburgh-public-schools-chief-of-staff-charged","tag-public-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}