Klein Michael Thaxton, center, is led into Pittsburgh Police headquarters after being apprehended without incident at Three Gateway Center in Pittsburgh, Friday Sept. 21, 2012.
AP via Jo Schisler / Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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