Point Park honors slain Pittsburgh Officer Calvin Hall
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The Point Park University Police Department’s training center has been renamed after slain Pittsburgh police Officer Calvin Hall, who formerly worked as a Point Park police officer, the university said Thursday.
Point Park renamed the center in a private ceremony Wednesday attended by Hall’s family.
Hall spent two years as a Point Park Police officer before leaving to join the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police.
The 36-year-old was shot July 14 in Homewood while off duty at a block party. He died July 17.
Point Park Assistant Vice President and Police Chief Jeffrey Besong presented Hall’s family with a plaque and gave them a tour of what will now be called Calvin M. Hall Point Park Police Training Center, which includes a simulator to train police for high-stress situations, according to a Point Park news release.
“It’s still difficult to talk about Calvin and the impact he had on our department,” Besong said in the release. “We had a lot of laughs with Calvin, but he also was a tremendous police officer who took his job – and training – very seriously. Having his name attached to the center gives us an opportunity to talk about him with our new officers while they undergo their own training.”
Hall’s family was honored by the decision.
“My brother valued his education as well as his oath to protect and serve. It is such an honor that his legacy will live on through the Point Park University Police Department,” Curtis Hall, Calvin’s brother, said in a news release. “My family and I are so proud of all his accomplishments, and we are elated that he had such a profound impact on everyone he came in contact with.”
Hall also was a Point Park student and was nearing a criminal justice degree when he was killed, the university said.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. plans to seek the death penalty for the man charged with slaying Hall, Christian Bey, 30, of Wilkinsburg.