A heavy police presence took over the area in the city's Garfield neighborhood as shots have been heard intermittently over two hours.
An eviction notice turned into an active shooting standoff in Pittsburgh Wednesday after a man opened fire at a sheriff's deputy.
A heavy police presence remains in the area as shots have been heard intermittently over two hours. Officers have evacuated people from the houses in the area, Pittsburgh Public Safety said. "They just knocked on the door, the police came in and told me they were taking me out," Thompson said, crying as her husband held her.
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