Police Investigating Monday Shooting

East Ridge police are investigating a Monday afternoon shooting that happened on a dead end street off John Ross Road.

According to Hamilton County 911, officers were called to 3600 Shirl Jo Drive at 4:39 p.m. on a “person shot” call.

Assistant Chief Stan Allen said a 17-year-old male suffered a gunshot wound to the face. The juvenile was taken to Erlanger Medical Center.

Chief Allen said that officers are speaking with witnesses and the investigation is in its early stages.

East Ridge News Online spoke with one man who lived on the street, and he said the shooting happened in a second-story unit at the top of the hill on the dead end street. The man said that a woman was “keeping the guy breathing” prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel.

“She’s the real hero here,” he said.

East Ridge News Online will update this story when more information is available.

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.