Police Investigating Possible Drive-by Shooting

ERPD officers search a yard at the corner of McBrien Road and Connell Street for shell casings after reports of a possible drive-by shooting, Saturday afternoon. No injuries were reported.

East Ridge police are investigating a reported drive-by shooting early Saturday afternoon.

According to Assistant Chief Stan Allen, officers responded to a call of “shots fired” at the corner of McBrien Road and Connell Street at about 1:30 p.m. Allen said investigators have no suspect information. However, police were provided with a possible description of a suspect vehicle. Officials said no injuries were reported subsequent to the “shots fired” call.

An hour after the shooting investigators were combing the yard of the residence on the north side of the intersection for shell casings. That same residence was the subject of a raid by law enforcement officers, including officers from the Drug Enforcement Agency, on Aug. 11 of last year.

East Ridge News Online will update this story when more information becomes available.

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.