ERPD Asking for Help in Finding Missing Teen

The East Ridge Police Department is asking for help in finding a missing teenager.

According to a department press release, on Wednesday, 15-year-old Kermyca Hester was reported missing by her father. The father told police that the girl was last seen at 6:50 a.m. walking to the school bus stop at the intersection of Gleason Drive and Dunlap Avenue.

Kermyca is a black female with brown eyes and black hair that she wears in braids. She is about 5-feet, 8-inches tall and weighs about 145 pounds.

Anyone with information as to Kermyca Hester’s current whereabouts is asked to contact the East Ridge Police Department at 423-867-3718 or dispatch at 423-622-1725.

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.