The East Ridge Police Department is investigating the Friday armed robbery of a Ringgold Road convenience store.
According to a police report, officers responded to J.J.’s Food Mart at 6116 Ringgold Road on Saturday on a reported delayed armed robbery. A clerk at the store told officers that he was robbed at gunpoint on the previous night after he closed the store. The victim said that he was walking to his car at about 11:30 p.m. when he was approached by a white male in dark pants wearing a dark-colored hoodie brandishing a firearm.
The report states that the suspect demanded money and threatened to shoot the victim. The victim said he pulled $40 to $60 from his front pocket and handed to his assailant who fled the scene.
The victim told officers that he couldn’t remember much about what kind of firearm the suspect had. A review of surveillance tapes shows a four-door sedan pulling into the Taco Bell. It backs out and travels back toward J.J.’s. Within seconds a white male is observed approaching J.J.’s from the same area the vehicle left from. The male suspect then walks to the rear of the food mart and subsequently approaches the victim, the report states. The suspect then flees in the same direction from which he came.
The investigation is continuing.
_ 915 S. Seminole Dr.: Police were dispatched to the address last week on an assault. According to a police report, when officers arrived they spoke with a crying woman who was blacking out and trying to explain that she and her boyfriend had argued over a cell phone. The woman was able to tell police that at some point her boyfriend, Dezmon Walker, began punching her in the face multiple times. Police observed swelling to the victim’s face, especially around her left eye.
The victim told officers that Walker grabbed her by the throat and began choking her out while telling her he would “kill her.” The report states that the victim told police that Walker then grabbed her by the head and throat and held her head under a sink full of water in the bathroom. The victim said she was finally able to scream for help and a friend found Walker and the victim in the bathroom where she found Walker with his hands around the neck of the victim.
The report states that Walker then grabbed the victim’s cell phone and left the scene.
The victim was taken by ambulance to Erlanger hospital.
The report states that warrants for Aggravated Domestic Assault were to have been taken out for Walker. At the time of this incident, the report states, Walker was out on bond for another Aggravated Domestic Assault.
