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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Butler, PA) According to a recent statement from the city of Butler’s police chief, the person who was fatally shot by police Saturday after a chase and crash on I-279 was being investigated in connection with a shooting in Butler. Butler Police Chief Bob O’Neill confirmed that investigators identified twenty-year-old Devin Russell as “a potential suspect that may have been involved” in a shooting on West New Castle Street that injured a seventeen-year-old boy one night earlier. Police say the events began as a chase involving multiple police departments which started in Penn Township on Route 8 just before 8 p.m. Saturday. One passenger in an SUV was shot and later died at a hospital. Three other passengers in that same SUV were injured in the crash and were all taken to the hospital.