[naviga:h3]Shootout leads to SWAT situation[/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police say a street shootout led to a SWAT situation in the city’s crime-ridden Homewood neighborhood, which has since been resolved.

Police say a man and woman came to the city’s Zone 5 police station about 1:50 a.m. Wednesday to report a shooting. They say a man they didn’t know approached with a gun, so the man with the woman pulled his gun and shot the gunman. Police say another man came out of a nearby home and began shooting at the couple from his porch.

Police went to that residence, which is where the SWAT standoff occurred for several hours until about dawn.

Meanwhile, the gunman police believe was shot in the initial incident arrived at a hospital in critical condition with a neck wound.

[naviga:h3]300K drug disposal patches coming[/naviga:h3]

SHELOCTA — The attorney general of Pennsylvania has announced plans to supply 300,000 drug deactivation and disposal pouches to a dozen counties hardest hit by the opioid epidemic.

Attorney General Josh Shapiro said everyone receiving a schedule II narcotic such as Percocet, oxycodone and fentanyl at a participating pharmacy will be offered a free disposal pouch.

Shapiro said at Klingensmith’s Neighborly Drug Store in Indiana County that 80 percent of heroin addicts start with abuse of prescription drugs, and most get them from friends, relatives or a medicine cabinet.

Shapiro said 278 pharmacies will provide pouches in Blair, Butler, Cambria, Erie, Fayette, Indiana, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Lehigh, Luzerne, Mercer and Montour counties.

[naviga:h3]Summer camp death being investigated[/naviga:h3]

MILFORD, — Police are investigating the death of a New Jersey boy who fell ill at a summer camp in Pennsylvania.

Eleven-year-old Daniel Beer, of Norwood, New Jersey, died at a hospital Monday. Pennsylvania State Police say Beer had complained of severe stomach pains. He was staying at Camp Nah-Jee-Wah in Milford.