UPDATED: Police Investigating Shooting on Glowmont Drive

Update: On Friday, East Ridge police said the investigation quickly uncovered that the gunshot wound the 16-year-old juvenile suffered was self inflicted and accidental. Chief Clint Uselton said this incident never provided a threat to the greater community. He said that investigators will follow up on how the juvenile victim came into possession of the firearm.

East Ridge police are investigating a shooting that happened Thursday on Glowmont Drive.

According to ERPD Chief Clint Uselton, a 16-year-old male was taken by personal vehicle to Parkridge East Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to his lower body. Officials said the injuries to the victim do not appear life-threatening.

The victim, a witness and evidence led detectives to an address in the 1600 block of Glowmont Drive just after 1 p.m.

Chief Uselton said ERPD investigators are working to determine the facts of the case.

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.