ERPD Searching for Suspect Who Fled Crash and Involved in Carjacking

East Ridge Police are looking for a suspect in a Sunday morning carjacking.

According to a press release, there was an accident on eastbound Interstate 24 involving multiple vehicles that injured three people. One man from the crash fled on foot off the interstate.

According to police, that man then carjacked a white VW Jetta on Norma Lane. The suspect is a black male wearing a white tank top.

After carjacking the Jetta, the suspect abandoned the vehicle a mile down the road. East Ridge police have subsequently found the vehicle.

The suspect, police say, abandoned the Jetta and continued on foot. He was last seen southbound on Larry Lane and Gleason Drive near the wooded area.

If anyone sees the suspect please call 911 immediately.

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.