Car Hits House; ERPD Investigating Reported Stabbing

East Ridge police are investigating a Sunday evening accident in which a car ran off the road and hit a house.

According to officials, officers were dispatched at 8:16 p.m. to the corner of Kenton Street and Marlboro Avenue on auto accident. A late model sedan had run off the road and struck the corner of a house. No one was at home during the time of the accident, officials said, and no injuries were reported. It is unclear how many people may have been in the car.

Lt. Clint Uselton said the incident is under investigation.

In a separate incident, East Ridge police were investigating a reported stabbing at the CVS pharmacy on Ringgold Road that happened at about 8:30 p.m. Officials said the victim was taken to Hutcheson Medical Center.

On Monday afternoon, ERPD Chief J.R. Reed said his officers responded to Hutcheson and spoke with the victim. It was then determined that the stabbing occurred at a pharmacy on the border of Rossville and Chattanooga not in East Ridge.

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.