Burger King Robbed

East Ridge police are investigating the armed robbery of the Burger King on Tuesday evening.

According to a department “pass along report,” officers responded to the business at 6404 Ringgold Road on a reported armed robbery. Police spoke with multiple employees who advised a man had brandished a firearm, ordered money put into a bag then locked all the employees inside a freezer before fleeing.

The report states that the suspect is believed to have fled the area on foot. Officers searched the area but were unable to locate the suspect.

The suspect is described as six-feet tall with an average build. He was wearing a ski mask, dark blue hoodie and blue jeans.

Investigators responded to the scene and reviewed security camera footage. The incident is currently under investigation.

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.