UPDATED: Police Investigating Sunday Morning Stabbing

UPDATE II: Chief Allen said Monday afternoon that the suspect, a male, remains at-large. The suspect, Chief Allen said, was acquainted with the victim. When asked if the victim’s injuries were life-threatening, Chief Allen said Erlanger hospital does not divulge the condition of patients.

UPDATE: East Ridge Police Chief Stan Allen said late Sunday afternoon that a suspect has been identified in the crime but has yet to be taken into custody. The nature of the stabbing was domestic related. The weapon used was a broken bottle.

East Ridge police are investigating an early-morning stabbing that happened on Bales Avenue.

According to Hamilton County dispatch, officers were called to 112 Bales Avenue at 4:15 a.m. on Sunday.

Assistant Police Chief Clint Uselton said the male victim had suffered multiple stab wounds. He was taken by EMS to Erlanger Medical Center. Chief Uselton said he does not know what condition the victim is in.

Officials said the investigation into the incident is continuing.

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