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Suspect killed in crash after police chase A man being pursued by police after an alleged armed robbery attempt was involved in a five-vehicle crash in Coatesville that killed him and injured eight others, police said. Police said Bradley Roach, 20, of West Bradford, tried to rob the Caln Farmer’s Market Gun Shop at 9 p.m. Saturday and assaulted the owner before fleeing in a car. “As far as we know, nothing was actually taken,” Caln Township Police Officer David Wardle said. The owner was struck by the butt end of a shotgun and went to a hospital to be treated for facial fractures, police said. The fleeing car then entered Coatesville and clipped a car that had four people inside, sending it spinning, and then hit a second vehicle head-on, police said. Roach died of injuries at Reading Hospital. Some of the others injured were flown to hospitals for …