One Dead, One Critical after Shooting on Roper Street

One person is dead and another suffering with life-threatening injuries after a Monday afternoon shooting.

Police were called to 5700 Roper Street at 3:20 in response to a shooting.

According to a press release from the East Ridge Police Department, when officers, along with other first responders, quickly arrived on scene they located victims and witnesses. Two people were found suffering from gunshot wounds. One person was declared deceased at the scene, with the other being transported to a hospital with life threatening injuries.

ERPD detectives and investigators are on scene and beginning the fact-finding process. Police are not releasing additional information at this time.

Police Chief Clint Uselton told a local television station reporter, two black males were seen leaving the area in a black sedan. It is his impression that the shooting was an isolated incident and that there is no threat to the general public.

If anyone has information regarding this incident, please contact the East Ridge Police Department.

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.