A Tamaqua area man reported missing in mid-June was found dead in Blythe Township June 21.

A Saint Clair man was charged in his death.The body of Jason "Jay" Hahn, 22, Andreas, was discovered in a wooded area near Silver Creek Road near New Philadelphia, 10 miles southwest of Tamaqua.Ethan Michael Sullivan, 20, a friend of Hahn, admitted to police he had beaten Hahn in the head with a metal bar, stole $54 in cash, along with Hahn's identification and other cards from his wallet.Hahn was last seen the weekend of June 14 when he left the house with a friend either late the night of June 14 or early in the morning of June 15.In a June 19 interview, Hahn's friend Derek Snyder said Sullivan told him he dropped Hahn off near MaryD or New Philadelphia, "but his story kept changing."Snyder and his family later learned the Jeep in which Sullivan had picked up Hahn had been stolen, and that the friend was in jail.The affidavit of probable cause notes that Sullivan had driven to 557 Blue Mountain Road in West Penn Township at approximately 1 a.m. on June 15.There, he became involved in a conversation with Hahn. Both men then left the home in Sullivan's Jeep and traveled to a wooded location in Blythe Township, north of New Philadelphia.At some point, Sullivan took a metal bar from the Jeep and struck Hahn in the head several times, police said.When the victim fell to the ground, Sullivan then took his cash, ID and several other cards from his wallet.The victim was then wrapped in a blue tarp and tossed down an embankment.Sullivan attempted to burn the Jeep and then fled the area.Sullivan has a string of arrests, the most recent being a felony burglary charge along with criminal mischief.He remains lodged in prison, charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, robbery and other offenses.Two killedin KunkletownGarry Sherwood Flyte, 54, of 428 Meixsell Valley Road, Kunkletown, took his great-grandfather's .410 shotgun, walked across his yard to his neighbor's house at 422 Meixsell Valley Road, and shot and killed Jeffrey Place, 54, and Place's son, Steven Powell, 30 at 6:50 p.m. March 19.Place was pronounced dead on the scene, and Powell died while undergoing surgery at Pocono Mountain Regional Medical Center, where he had been taken by ambulance.Flyte also shot Place and Powell's German shepherd, Cam, while looking for Place's wife, Wendy, who escaped injury.Flyte then went back to his own house and left the gun there. He returned to the victim's house, called 911 and told dispatchers he had "shot three people."Flyte, represented by attorney James Gregor, has no known history of mental illness.Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen said Place died at the scene.He said Powell was shot inside the house and he left a trail of blood to the backyard, where Wendy found him. He was transported to Pocono Medical Center, where he died during surgery, Allen said.Police arrested Flyte at Powell and Place's house without incident. Flyte told police that voices told him to shoot his neighbors.Police charged Flyte, whose only other brush with the law was a charge of driving under the influence in November 2012, with two counts of criminal homicide and cruelty to animals.Flyte is being held in Monroe County Prison without bail. He faces two counts of criminal homicide, one count of criminal attempt to commit homicide, and cruelty to animals.Teens shotby hunterA shooting in Tamaqua on Nov. 25, left a teenage boy and girl in critical condition at Lehigh Valley area hospitals, victims of an apparent hunting trip gone wrong.Anthony Pascoe, 52, told police he had been hunting in the woods and was on his way home when he turned toward the mountain to empty his rifle, unaware of the teens until he heard a girl screaming that she'd been shot.There was some initial confusion as to the location of the incident.After searching for several minutes, yelling for the victims, responding officers were updated that the area of the incident was at Green Street and Anthracite Avenue, two blocks east of where they were searching.Cpl. Henry Woods, Pennsylvania State Police, police officers from West Penn and Rush Townships, as well as Tamaqua Fire Police and fire department personnel had arrived to help in the search.Within minutes, despite the heavy brush, uneven ground and darkness, the victims were located on the second level of the four terraces created by a major abandoned mine reclamation project more than 10 years ago.Paramedics indicated the male was shot in the stomach area and the female sustained a serious leg wound.The teens were shot with a single bullet from a .270 caliber pump-action rifle.The male was airlifted to St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, and the female to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown.The incident took place on the wooded mountainside of South Mountain to the rear of the town's South Ward section.Both teens are now recovering.The incident is being investigated by the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Law Enforcement Division and charges are expected to be filed.Tamaqua Taser deathPennsylvania State Police investigators were summoned to Tamaqua on Aug. 8, after an early-morning incident involving police use of a Taser in which one man later died.Jose Paulino Jr., 38, was shot by police using a Taser after Paulino reportedly ran around a parking lot near Fegley's Mini Mart and J&J Sunoco, Center Street shouting obscenities and refusing to cooperate or be subdued.Paulino was placed in an ambulance and died on the way to St. Luke's Hospital-Miners Campus in Coaldale.After an ensuing three-month investigation by the state police major case unit, Schuylkill County District Attorney Christine Holman announced Nov. 19 that local police had been exonerated in the death.The findings concluded that Tamaqua police used every reasonable method to apprehend Paulino, who'd ingested synthetic marijuana "which may have been the sole cause of his heart failure," according to the report.Linda Koehler