UPDATE : Allegheny County Police have posted an update and say early information shows the incident is a murder-suicide. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe identities of the adult male and two children will be released by the Medical Examiner’s Office. Law Enforcement encourages anyone suffering from mental health issues to seek assistance from a mental health professional,\u201d said police. According to reports, three people are dead in Mt. Lebanon. KDKA Radio’s Marty Griffin is reporting A man and two children have died.<\/p>\n
Multiple sources are reporting around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, a man threw his two young children off the top floor of a parking garage near the municipal building and then jumped himself. All three are dead. <\/p>\n
According to reports a 38-year-old man threw his 5-year-old and 7-year-old off the roof and then jumped himself.<\/p>\n
A witness, Scott McIntire, tells KDKA Radio\u2019s Marty Griffin called the scene \u201cbeyond horrible.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, we are treating this incident not as an accident,\u201d said Mt. Lebanon Police Chief Jason Haberman.<\/p>\n
Chief Haberman says responding officers tried to administer live-saving measures, but were unsuccessful. <\/p>\n
Mt. Lebanon Police posted on social media around 5 p.m. saying, \u201cOngoing police situation near municipal building.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be a significant amount of trauma associated with this event,\u201d said Chief Haberman, who asked the public to pray for the affected family. <\/p>\n
The incident seems to be near the parking garage on Washington Road. <\/p>\n
Police add there is no threat to the public and that additional information will be released shortly.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE : Allegheny County Police have posted an update and say early information shows the incident is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130254,7526,74878,73,75,74,206],"class_list":["post-320687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bodies-found","tag-mt-lebanon","tag-mt-lebanon-police","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320687","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=320687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}