DA: Fugitive shot 7 times by 2 weapons; missed by shotgun
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The district attorney says a Pittsburgh fugitive charged with raping a child who was fatally shot by a U.S. Marshal’s-led task force was hit with seven shots fired from two different weapons.
Allegheny County district attorney’s spokesman Mike Manko says a shotgun was also fired at 47-year-old Leslie Sapp III, but he wasn’t wounded by it.
Pittsburgh police and the DA’s office are reviewing the Tuesday morning shooting by members of the marshal’s Western District of Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force. Investigators say Sapp confronted police with a BB-pistol before he was shot.
A county sheriff’s deputy and a state trooper on the task force are on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. U.S. Marshal Steven Frank of Pittsburgh has declined to say how many of his deputies were involved.