Kennemer Arrested in Connection with Shooting on Boyd Street

A Brainerd man has been arrested on charges of Aggravated Assault and Possession of a Stolen Weapon after a shooting late Thursday morning.

According to an East Ridge Police Department press release, officers were dispatched to a “person shot” call on Boyd Street at 11:43 a.m. There they encountered a suspect who was quickly detained without incident.

The victim, who was immediately given first aid, had sustained gunshot wounds from a small-caliber handgun to the upper leg and lower arm. The victim was taken by Hamilton County EMS to a local hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

Marcus Kennemer, 22, of a Larkin Avenue address, was arrested and charged with Aggravated Assault Possession of a Stolen Firearm.

ERPD Chief Clint Uselton said the shooting was the result of a dispute that most people would consider insignificant.

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.