CPD Investigating Coolidge Park Shooting

On Wednesday at 2:20 p.m., Chattanooga Police officers responded to a Shots Fired call in the 100 block of River Street. Upon arrival, officers located evidence of gunfire. They were also informed that one person showed up at a hospital by personal vehicle with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

CPD Homicide and Crime Scene responded to process the scene and continue the investigation.

Preliminary investigation indicates the 16-year-old male victim was standing in a parking lot when someone in a passing vehicle shot him. The vehicle left the scene at a high rate of speed.

The information is preliminary and is subject to change as the investigation continues. Chattanooga Police ask anyone with information regarding this incident to call 423-698-2525.

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.