1 arrested after SWAT responds to Millvale home

Police arrested a man after a SWAT situation shut down a Millvale neighborhood on Tuesday.

Police blocked off Evergreen Road near Seavey Road in Millvale for about an hour in the afternoon.

Officers in tactical gear came in from several departments including Shaler, Etna, Reserve and Ohio Valley.

Investigators say a 50-year-old man who just left jail Tuesday morning texted his landlord that he was going to shoot his neighbors.

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After police got involved, the man repeated the threat.

Millvale police say the suspect nailed his door shut, but they were able to get inside and take him into custody.

Channel 11 talked to a relative of the neighbors who were on the receiving end of those threats.

"The other day he took a knife to my great niece's throat, he said he's gonna kill her. So she called the cops and they put him in jail. He got out this morning and said he was going to blow them away because he was mad at them," said Barb Oswald, relative of the victim.

The 50-year-old is headed back to jail facing a number of charges including terroristic threats and reckless endangerment.

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