{"id":99423,"date":"2026-01-29T04:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99423\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:28:48","slug":"police-shoot-critically-injure-man-in-wilkins-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99423\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shoot, critically injure man in Wilkins Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Allegheny County Police Department is investigating after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/video\/man-shot-by-police-charged-with-aggravated-assault-other-charges-officials-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">officers shot and critically injured a man<\/a>\u00a0in Wilkins Township on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>County 911 dispatchers received a call shortly after noon reporting a man with a gun at Brentmoor at Penn Center. Authorities said the man had been involved in an altercation with a maintenance worker and threatened the worker with a firearm. According to the criminal complaint, the man was upset because the maintenance worker entered his apartment to do work when he wasn&#8217;t home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard two men going back and forth, and then it started to get more serious. And I heard scuffling,&#8221; Maddy McLaughlin said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from several local police departments responded and encountered the man inside a garage, police said. Officers ordered him to drop the gun, but he refused to comply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers attempted to negotiate with the man. He was in the garage holding the gun. A Churchill officer attempted to use a less-lethal round to subdue him,&#8221; said Allegheny County Police Superintendent Chris Kearns. &#8220;The man responded by firing his handgun at the officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two additional Churchill police officers returned fire, striking the man multiple times, authorities said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was last reported in critical condition. Police later identified the man as 31-year-old Khalil Collier, saying he was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, and persons not to possess a firearm, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>County police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call the Allegheny County Police Tip Line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department will review body-camera footage and interview the officers involved. The district attorney&#8217;s office will determine if the shooting was justified. The status of the Churchill police officers who shot the man was not immediately known.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Allegheny County Police Department is investigating after officers shot and critically injured a man\u00a0in Wilkins Township on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,73,75,74,623,220],"class_list":["post-99423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police-shooting","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99423","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=99423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}