{"id":266309,"date":"2026-08-16T08:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266309\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:03:36","slug":"armed-man-shot-by-pittsburgh-police-officer-after-refusing-to-drop-gun-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266309\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed man shot by Pittsburgh Police officer after refusing to drop gun, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man is in critical condition following an officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh\u2019s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-law\/24K3UNPPBVDQLAJDPG2ZPR3FMM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-law\/24K3UNPPBVDQLAJDPG2ZPR3FMM\/\">CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS FROM THE SCENE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At around 8:40 p.m., 911 dispatchers were called about three men arguing in the 6600 block of Lyric Street, threatening to pull out guns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">When officers arrived on scene, they encountered a man holding a gun. According to the Allegheny County Police Department, officers ordered the man to drop the gun, but the man turned abruptly toward the officers, and the officer then fired his weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The man whom the officer shot was taken to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">No officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Friday afternoon, Allegheny County police said they\u2019d obtained an arrest warrant for 50-year-old Maurice Manson of Pittsburgh in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Manson is charged with aggravated assault of a police officer. ACPD says he\u2019s in stable condition at the hospital.<\/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 A man is in critical condition following an officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh\u2019s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[112381,6110,869,7899,5900,235,24032,13591,52257,112380,139,859,73,75,74,866,2638,58450,420,860],"class_list":["post-266309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-6600_block","tag-allegheny","tag-channel_11","tag-christine","tag-christine_dantonio","tag-county","tag-lincoln_avenue","tag-lincoln_leamington","tag-lincoln_leamington_belmar","tag-lyric_street","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rich_pierce","tag-rick_earl","tag-route_8","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266309","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=266309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}