Stabbing on Gleason Drive

East Ridge police are investigating a stabbing incident that happened early Monday afternoon on Gleason Drive at the Ridgeview Pointe Apartments.

According to police officials, Charles Arthur Kyle was allegedly beating his live-in girlfriend, Allissa Sullivan, for an extended period of time. Police said the man was high “on a variety of drugs.” The girlfriend, who is pregnant, allegedly obtained a knife to defend herself. Kyle, police said, was stabbed in the right elbow, resulting in heavy blood loss.

Kyle was taken to Erlanger Hospital, while Sullivan was transported to Parkridge East Hospital.

According to police, three children were present during the incident. Child Protective Services have been contacted. The children are currently in the care of relatives.

The investigation, police said, is continuing.

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.