By David Eck
Enquirer contributor

ANDERSON TOWNSHIP - A Mount Washington man is facing a list of charges after he broke into a Beechmont Avenue store early Thursday, tried to run a deputy down with his car and then led officers on a high-speed chase, Hamilton County sheriff's deputies said.

Shawn W. Richmont, 24, was charged with breaking and entering, fleeing and eluding and felonious assault on a police officer, police said. Deputy Michael R. Dumont fired a shot into Richmont's car as the suspect tried to run him down, but there were no injuries, officials said.

Dumont responded to a burglar alarm at Extreme Sound, 7863 Beechmont Ave., at 12:39 a.m. and found Richmont coming out of the front door carrying merchandise, police said. The glass on the door had been broken out, police said.

The suspect dropped the merchandise and ran to his vehicle, police said. Dumont ordered Richmont to stop, but the suspect started driving toward the deputy, said sheriff's spokesman Steve Barnett. As the car reached the deputy, he fired one shot into the passenger compartment, police said.

Other officers pursued Richmont's vehicle east on Beechmont Avenue into Clermont County, reaching speeds up to 110 mph. The suspect tried to turn onto Bach-Buxton Road from Ohio 125 when a sheriff's cruiser struck his vehicle from the rear, police said. The driver then surrendered, police said.

It was the second time in two days that an officer fired into a vehicle in Hamilton County. On Wednesday, two Blue Ash police officers fatally shot a North College Hill man after he rammed three cruisers at the end of a chase in Sharonville.

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