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You are here: Home / Crime News / ERPD Investigating Friday Night Shooting

ERPD Investigating Friday Night Shooting

January 26, 2019 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

The East Ridge Police Department is investigating a shooting that happened late Friday night.

According to a press release by the department, officers responded to 925 Altamaha Street at 11:32 p.m. on a report of a person shot. When officers arrived they found Brian Turner, 31, suffering from a shotgun wound to the head.

Police said that the suspect, 46-year-old Patrick Daly, told them that he had shot Turner in self-defense.

Officials said the shooting is under investigation.

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

Filed Under: Crime News, FEATURED POSTS, News

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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