A police officer fatally shot a 17-year-old boy just seconds after he fled from a traffic stop in a confrontation partly captured on video from a nearby home.
Investigators said today that the car stopped in the town of East Pittsburgh matched the description of a vehicle being sought in a non-fatal shooting in a town a few kilometres away.
An East Pittsburgh officer, who has not been identified, was taking the driver into custody when the two passengers, including 17-year-old Antwon Rose, fled the car.
Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said Rose was shot three times. A report from the medical examiner confirmed that Rose had died at a local hospital but did not say where he was struck or the cause of death.
CBS Pittsburgh reported that the officer who fired had only been sworn in hours before the shooting.