PITTSBURGH — Prosecutors have announced plans to seek the death penalty in the slaying of an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer shot to death in a street confrontation last month.

The Allegheny County district attorney’s office informed the court Monday of their intention to seek capital punishment should Christian Bey be convicted of first-degree murder.

Prosecutors also unsealed the indictment charging Bey, 30, with homicide and firearms crimes in the July 14 shooting of 35-year-old Officer Calvin Hall during a street dispute in the Homewood neighborhood as a party was going on.

Authorities said Hall died at a hospital three days after he was shot three times.