SWAT Team Arrests Pittsburgh Man After Hostage Incident Involving Kids

PITTSBURGH, PA — A man is in custody following a tense standoff with a SWAT team Tuesday after he threatened to harm his young children.

Police responded to a domestic disturbance call at around 3:20 p.m. in an apartment in the 200 block of East Ohio Street on the North Side. A woman outside the apartment said her 21-month-old son and 7-month-old daughter were inside with their father, who entered the apartment after an altercation and was threatening to harm the children.

Negotiators attempted to get the man to surrender, but eventually the SWAT team created a diversion to separate the man from the children and rescue them unharmed. They were reunited with their mother after being examined by medics.

Jason Zenmon Jr., 28, was attested and charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, terroristic threats, endangering the welfare of children, unlawful restraint of a minor, reckless endangering another person and defiant trespass. Zenmon is being held in the Allegheny County Jail.