McKeesport (Pa.) Police officer Sean Sluganski shot and killed in the line of duty

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McKeesport Police officer Sean Sluganski shot and killed in the line of duty
Updated on: February 7, 2023 / 7:14 AM / CBS Pittsburgh

MCKEESPORT, Pa. (KDKA) - One officer was killed and another was injured after a shooting in McKeesport.

The officers were responding to a domestic call on Wilson Avenue when they encountered the suspect on Grandview Avenue. Allegheny County police said the suspect pulled out a handgun and opened fire.

Officer Sean Sluganski died and Officer Charles Thomas was taken to the hospital seriously injured but is now in stable condition.

The suspect, Johnathan Morris, 32, was also injured in an exchange of gunfire with a third officer and was taken to the hospital. He has now been charged.  ...

KDKA, Pittsburgh
Initial reports indicated the shooter's mother (a former police officer herself) had called 911 because her son was having a "mental health issue" from PTSD. When cops arrived, he shot Ofrcr. Sluganski in the face, then shot Ofcr. Thomas, who was able to shoot him in the leg. When Morris shot at a third officer, that officer shot back and took him into custody.

Mr. M and I just looked at each other. PTSD, from what? I'd love to know what sort of traumatic event this guy - who was known to police - ever suffered. Did he serve in combat? I doubt it. Maybe I'm being presumptuous, but it's tiring to hear snowflakes claiming to have PTSD because of the time they didn't get the video game they wanted or the store was out of their favorite flavor of Pringles. C'mon, man.


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Suspect in McKeesport police shooting threatened to go on 'killing spree' weeks earlier, officials say
Paula Reed Ward | Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023 7:28 p.m.

The warning was dire: a McKeesport man named Johnathan Morris was threatening to go on a “killing spree.”

It was Jan. 13 — three weeks before investigators say Morris, an ex-Marine and son of a former McKeesport police officer, abruptly opened fire on two of his mother’s former colleagues, killing one.

Florida authorities contacted Allegheny County that afternoon, alerting them that Morris was making threats to a Pensacola credit union, according to records obtained by the Tribune-Review.

Police were sent to his house. Nobody was home. ...

At 12:14 p.m. that day, Sluganski and Thomas were dispatched to 1411 Wilson St. for a report of a domestic dispute. The caller, Morris’ mother, Candace Tyler, said her son had PTSD and was being violent, according to a court records and radio traffic.

Tyler, who’d been a McKeesport police officer for 16 years before she was fired in 2021, told the call taker that Morris was ex-military and had weapons accessible to him, including a handgun.

“They’re saying there are weapons in the house but they’re secure,” the dispatcher said. “There are guns, but they are secure per the caller on this.”

A criminal complaint filed in that incident said Morris walked away from the house by the time officers had arrived.

They were able to track him, and a few minutes later, he shot Thomas, who was in his patrol vehicle, and then shot Sluganski. ...

Pittsburgh Tribune Review