Authorities File Charges in Shirl Jo Shooting

East Ridge Police have filed charges of Attempted Murder and Especially Aggravated Robbery in relation to the March 25 late afternoon shooting of a 16-year-old victim on Shirl Jo Lane.

According to an ERPD press release, two juveniles have been charged thus far and their names will not be released. As of Monday morning, the suspects were not in custody.

The press release goes on to state that the investigation benefited from team work and cooperative efforts between ERPD Patrol Division, ERPD Criminal Investigation Division, ERPD Crime Suppression Unit, Chattanooga Police Department, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, and Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office.

The charges were filed on March 29 at Hamilton County Juvenile Court. The investigation 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.