ERPD Asking for Help in Locating Vehicle Possibly Connected to Fatal Shooting Death

East Ridge Police Department investigators are asking for the public’s help in locating a vehicle that may be connected to last week’s fatal shooting of a juvenile on Connell Street.

According to a department press release the vehicle is possibly a 2011 to 2014 black Dodge Charger. The car has chrome wheels and a rear spoiler. The occupants of the vehicle are believed to have vital information regarding the incident.

If you have any information regarding the vehicle or the case, please contact Detective Stojnic at sstojnic@eastridgetn.gov or call the Confidential Tip Line at 423-867-0016.

On Tuesday, November 21, police were called to 5420 Connell St. on a person shot call. When they arrived they found a juvenile male suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. The victim was taken to an area hospital where he died from his injury.

ERPD Chief Clint Uselton said at the time that there is no indication that the death posed any threat to the greater community.

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.