Officers, family, community mourn slain off-duty officer
PITTSBURGH — Police officers, officials and members of the community gathered to pay their respects to an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer shot to death in a street confrontation more than a week ago.
Relatives of 35-year-old Officer Calvin Hall were among those speaking during Tuesday’s service at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood.
Hall died July 17, three days after he was shot three times in the back during a street dispute in the Homewood neighborhood as a party was going on. Officials have said that there was a “strong possibility” that Hall, although off duty, “was in fact acting under the color of the law when he was fatally shot.”
A large procession of police officers had arrived for the funeral.
Charges were announced against a suspect Monday afternoon as a viewing for the slain officer was being held.
