Man identified that police shot and killed after he took Ohio police car and crashed it on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(North Sewickley Township, PA) The man that police shot and killed after he took a police car from Ohio and crashed it on the Pennsylvania Turnpike was identified on Wednesday. According to Pennsylvania state troopers, thirty-year-old Deshawn Dante Leeth of Michigan was the man who traveled eastbound on I-76 in the stolen police car on Friday. Investigators also state that an “altercation” led to police killing Leeth. The incident is being investigated by the Beaver County District Attorney.