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Pittsburgh police negotiators console man who threatened to jump from East Ohio Street overpass

Tom Davidson
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East Ohio Street is the central business district in Pittsburgh’s Deutschtown neighborhood in the North Side. Saturday, April 2, 2022.

A negotiation with a man in crisis that spurred a seven-hour closure of Route 28 on the North Side ended successfully at about 9 a.m. Saturday morning, police said.

The situation started about 2 a.m., when a man threatened to jump from the East Ohio Street overpass in the city’s Deutschtown neighborhood. Route 28 was closed until about 9 a.m., when the man was taken into custody and transported to a hospital for treatment, police said.

Tom Davidson is a TribLive news editor. He has been a journalist in Western Pennsylvania for more than 25 years. He can be reached at tdavidson@triblive.com.

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