UPDATE: Findlay Robbery Suspect Shoots Himself Before Arrest Can Be Made

5/23/17 – 5:12 A.M.
UPDATE – 12:39 P.M.

 

The man suspected of robbing a Findlay pharmacy is dead after shooting himself during a police chase Monday. Findlay Police Department says that 46-year-old Jared Haskins robbed Scarbrough’s Pharmcy on South Main Street. An employee gave officers a description of Haskins’ truck which they found a few blocks away. He took off and police gave chase.

After 18 miles Haskins pulled into the parking lot of a church by Bluffton. Officers ordered him out of the vehicle but he shot himself instead. Officers and a trooper from the Ohio State Highway Patrol gave him medical aid.

Hanco EMS took him to Blanchard Valley Hospital. Life Flight took him from there to St Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toldeo where he died around 6:45 p.m

No one else was harmed during the incident.