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ROOSEVELT — A police chase that closed both directions of U.S. 189 near Deer Creek Reservoir for a time Sunday ended with a man wanted in connection with a shooting taken into custody.
The Wasatch County Sheriff's Office reported on its Facebook page that deputies first heard reports of a shooting in Roosevelt at 1 p.m. Sunday. The gunman was said to have shot one person and possibly himself and then fled the scene in a stolen vehicle.
Wasatch County deputies searching along state Route 40 spotted the vehicle in the Daniel Canyon area. The driver of the vehicle refused to stop for the deputies and led several agencies on a chase past Heber City. He ended up crashing the vehicle on U.S. 189 at about milepost 23 and was taken into police custody.
The driver of the fleeing vehicle, identified by police as Jason D. Hare, was taken into custody and transported to a hospital in Utah County to be treated for a gunshot wound to the arm. Hare will be transported to jail once he is released.
The man who was shot in Roosevelt has also been hospitalized. His exact condition was not given.
Additional information on the victim was not immediately available.
