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A pizza deliveryman fatally shot a would-be robber after a struggle overnight in Beaver Falls, police said.
Beaver Falls Police Chief John A. DeLuca said the encounter occurred around 12:20 a.m. Friday in the 1500 block of 2nd Avenue. Police were dispatched to the scene for a report of an attempted robbery of a pizza delivery driver.
When they arrived, the driver told police he had delivered a pizza and was returning to his vehicle when a man approached him and attempted to rob him.
"At that time, a struggle ensued and the driver was stabbed," Chief DeLuca said.
The driver told police he managed to get to his vehicle, where he retrieved his handgun and fired a single round at the attacker.
The wounded attacker fled and was found by police about a block away on a porch, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The pizza delivery driver was taken by ambulance to a Pittsburgh hospital. His condition has not been released.
No identifications are being released by authorities at this time.
Amanda Blackwell, who lives near the robbery scene, said she was watching television at home when she heard a gunshot.
When she went outside, she said she saw the injured pizza deliveryman.
"I asked him if he was OK and he said he didn't know," she said.
Ms. Blackwell said police interviewed the driver minutes later.
"I heard him tell the cops ... the guy attacked him and they were rolling around and fighting on the ground," she said. The deliveryman — who had a gash on his head and blood dripping from the back of his shoulder where he had been stabbed — got into his vehicle and grabbed a gun from the glove compartment and fired a single gunshot.
Tonia Johnson, another neighbor, said she also heard a gunshot and saw the wounded deliveryman.