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<\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\nA contracted Pittsburgh Water worker was seriously injured in the Troy Hill neighborhood after a man hit him with a car during a series of violent attacks, police said. <\/p>\n
Authorities said 33-year-old Matthew Dougherty was assaulting his girlfriend at a home on Lowrie Street before confronting a nearby road crew working on a water main replacement project. <\/p>\n
SEE DOUGHERTY BEING TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ABOVE.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Dougherty threatened the road crew with a gun, pepper-sprayed and punched the female worker, and hit her husband, who is also a worker, with his car.<\/p>\n
A worker who was jackhammering at the scene described the encounter, saying Dougherty pointed a gun at him. <\/p>\n
“The neighbor came over yelling, asking for a permit. I told him we didn’t need a permit to talk to the homeowner. He proceeded to whip out a gun, put it in my face, asking for a permit again. I was able to talk him down. He left the breezeway from the rear end to the front and then assaulted his girlfriend and ran over the construction worker in a matter of 35 minutes. I mean, 35 seconds,” the worker said. <\/p>\n
Witnesses at the scene said the injured construction worker was alert, and police confirmed he was taken to the hospital in serious condition. <\/p>\n
The victim’s wife, who police said Dougherty punched and pepper-sprayed, refused treatment so she could accompany her husband to the hospital. <\/p>\n
Officers found Dougherty less than an hour later, just one block away. <\/p>\n
Police confirmed his identity with Pittsburgh Action News 4 as he was taken into custody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police: Man pepper-sprayed Pittsburgh Water crew, pulled gun, then ran over worker PITTSBURGH \u2014 A contracted Pittsburgh Water…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2663,2590,40286,9001,6111,16023,122298,122296,122297,3404,73,75,74,18344,51304,206,2581,121236,11809,11580],"class_list":["post-295756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-car","tag-custody","tag-girlfriend","tag-gun","tag-hospital","tag-husband","tag-man-pepper-spray","tag-matthew-dougherty","tag-nearby-road-crew","tag-permit","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-water","tag-pittsburgh-water-crew","tag-police","tag-scene","tag-serious-condition","tag-troy-hill","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295756","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=295756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}