Shawn Stevens

Deadly force

Police were trying to serve an arrest warrant on Shawn Stevens regarding at least one bank robbery. Police were going door to door talking to people in an apartment building,and they said Stevens attempted to slam the door on them. Stevens allegedly threatened to stab several women with a kitchen knife and lunged at a woman with the knife, knocking her on the ground and cutting her slightly. Stevens allegedly tried lunging at the woman again. An officer attempted to incapacitate Stevens with a taser, and a Pittsburgh police officer and an FBI agent shot and killed Stevens.