A Pittsburgh woman was arrested Friday after repeatedly ramming a police cruiser, nearly striking a police dog and leading authorities on a car chase from McKees Rocks to Pittsburgh’s North Side.
McKees Rocks police said they were dispatched around 6 p.m. for a disturbance on Washington Street. A resident called 911 to report that a woman was armed with a gun.
Responding officers said they saw and approached a woman, later identified as Aniyah Moore, 22, in a car nearby. She refused commands to get out of the car and sped away, turning right onto Washington Street.
Officers blocked in Moore’s vehicle and again ordered her to leave the car, police said. She then reversed her vehicle into a marked police cruiser multiple times and rammed the police force’s K-9 vehicle head-on, nearly running over a police dog before the dog jumped out of the way.
Moore then struck a car parked nearby and drove away, fleeing into Pittsburgh on the McKees Rocks Bridge, police said.
After entering the city’s North Side, Moore crashed into the front yard of a Brighton Road home, got out of her car and ran toward a nearby business district, police said.
Pittsburgh police helped McKees Rocks officers apprehend Moore. Police said they later found a 40 caliber pistol, which had been illegally modified to be fully automatic, inside Moore’s vehicle.
Moore is not legally allowed to own a gun, police said.
McKees Rocks police said the way officers handled the incident was “a testament to the training and professionalism within this police department.”
“It is because of these values alone, there were no catastrophic losses,” the department said in a social media post.
Moore was charged with 12 criminal counts, including aggravated assault, simple assault, and two counts of recklessly endangering another person, court records show. She also faces nine traffic summonses.
Moore was awaiting arraignment Saturday morning, court records show. Her attorney was not listed in court records.