Neighbors of a Penn Hills High School teacher who officials say pointed a gun at police before officers shot and killed him Tuesday in Shaler, described his behavior as “shocking” because he was usually a “straight-laced guy.”
Don Babbit, 49, was shot and killed by police around 3 p.m. in the 800 block of Spencer Grove Lane after he was acting “erratically” and reportedly waved a gun at officers, Allegheny County police said.
Neighbor Kayli Plavetzky, 17, saw that erratic behavior just a short time before the shooting. She said she was home alone and in her pool when she heard screaming and sounds that she originally dismissed as nothing.
“So I looked up and I saw my neighbor, and he was naked in his backyard, and it’s like not normal to me,” she recalled Wednesday. “So I called my mom and he started walking over to my pool.” Her mother then called the police, she said.
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“Once in her yard, Mr. Babbit placed a pool filter that was on the deck of the pool on his head, then walked back to his house, she said.
“It was just weird. He didn’t say anything. He would just walk through [her yard] and walk back.”
“He’s normal, he’s a nice guy and we say hi to him all the time,” she said. “I don’t know what’s going on. … He was obviously not in the right state of mind.”
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