Police Investigating Hit & Run Fatality

The East Ridge Police Department is seeking information on a hit and run pedestrian fatality that occurred on Ringgold Road at Blackhawk Trail on Christmas night.

The male pedestrian was apparently crossing Ringgold Road and was struck by an unknown vehicle traveling east bound. Parts of the hit & run vehicle were recovered at the scene and are being examined to determine the make and model of the vehicle.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the East Ridge Police Department at 423-867-3718 or 423-622-1725. The Confidential Tip Line is 423-867-0016.

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.