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A 36-year-old Arnold man reportedly killed himself on Dec. 14 in the drive-thru lane of an Imperial restaurant.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office reported that the Timothy Harlan shot himself in the head while he was being apprehended by a sheriff’s deputy at the Jack-in-the-Box restaurant located at 1200 Main St. in Imperial.

The report said that deputies were dispatched to respond to a report of a disturbance at 3:40 a.m. in the 2100 block of Devonshire in Imperial. The woman who called Jefferson County 911 Dispatch said that an ex-boyfriend was beating on the door to her home but he drove away in a blue sports utility vehicle before deputies arrived.

According to the report, while driving to the woman’s home, a deputy saw the blue SUV headed east on Old Antonia Road and the deputy turned around to follow it.

The deputy caught up with the SUV in the drive-thru lane of the restaurant and approached the vehicle commanding Harlan to put both of his hands outside the window.

Harlan complied but began yelling that he had a gun and threatened to kill the deputy and then Harlan brought his hands back into the SUV.