CPD Investigating Shooting

The Chattanooga Police Department is investigating a robbery in the 6500 block of Pine Manor Drive that resulted in one person being shot.

On Saturday afternoon at approximately 3:06 p.m., Chattanooga Police Robbery Investigators responded to interview the victim and process the scene. Preliminary investigation indicates that the victim and suspect met in the 6500 block of Pine Manor Dr. to complete a transaction arranged through a social media marketplace when the suspect shot the victim. The 17-year-old male victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

As a reminder, the CPD offers a Safe Exchange Zone in the Police Services Center parking lot located at 3410 Amnicola Highway. This area is for residents to conduct secure transactions like buying, selling, trading items, or during child custody exchanges. This designated area has several video cameras which record 24/7. Anyone wanting to use the space does not need to check in with the CPD, but should park in the designated Safe Exchange Zone area to complete their business.

Although there’s a designated area with cameras at the CPD, we still recommend meeting to make exchanges during daylight hours and telling a friend or family member where you’re going.This is an ongoing investigation and details may change as more information becomes available. Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to call the Chattanooga Police Department at 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.