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Bennett Road Man Charged with Rape of Minor

January 14, 2026 By Dick Cook Leave a Comment

An East Ridge man, along with his mother, were charged on Tuesday with various crimes in regard to an incident stemming from August of last year.

According to Hamilton County Jail booking reports, Tyrell Wilson, 25, of a Bennett Road address, was booked into the facility on Jan. 13 on charges of Aggravated Rape, Aggravated Sexual Battery, Aggravated Kidnapping, and Custodial Interference.

His mother, 46-year-old Demetrice Wilson, was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Kidnapping, Conspiracy to Commit Custodial Interference, and Resisting Arrest.

According to an affidavit of complaint, police were dispatched to Bennett Road and South Seminole Drive on a report that a Black woman was running down the street being chased by a Black man. A resident told officers that the woman had run out of a residence at 3584 Bennett Road and that both people returned inside the house.

When officers knocked on the door at the Bennett Road address, Tyrell Wilson answered and there was a female behind him crying and hyperventilating. Wilson told the police that the female was his sister and that nothing had happened.

The female was identified and it was determined she was a minor. She told officers that Wilson had assaulted her that evening as she emerged from a shower. She said the suspect strangled her and she retreated to a bedroom. According to the female, Wilson retrieved a knife and attempted to stab her. She then fled the house in the nude and knocked on a nearby door before Wilson caught here and took her back to the house.

Further investigation revealed that the juvenile had run away from home in June. The juvenile told police that she had been repeatedly raped almost daily by Wilson. 

Police executed a search warrant on August 11 at the Wilson’s Bennett Road house looking for knives, bodily fluids, bedding, pillows, blankets, and clothing.

According to the affidavit, Police met with paramedics who had responded to the Wilson home. The paramedics told officers that Demetrice Wilson represented herself as the juvenile victim’s legal guardian and did not want the victim transported to the hospital.

Tyrell Wilson is being held in jail under a $50,000 bond. No court date has been set.

 

 

 

 

 

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.


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