Injured Suspect Taken into Custody on South Seminole Drive

A man who was apparently shot during a traffic stop in Chattanooga was apprehended in East Ridge, late Monday afternoon.

Stan Allen, Assistant Police Chief for the East Ridge Police Department, said the man who was shot was a suspect in an auto theft in Chattanooga. He was located by ERPD in a house at 814 South Seminole Drive. Chief Allen said the suspect was removed from the home on a gurney and taken to an area hospital.

According to our friends at NewsChannel9, a Chattanooga police officer and the suspect exchanged gunfire in the 500 block of Rossville Boulevard earlier on Monday evening. Chattanooga officers said they pulled over a driver they suspected of stealing a vehicle. The suspect opened fire on an officer. The officer then fired back at the suspect.

According to records from Hamilton County Jail, a 51-year-old woman who gave this address as her home address was arrested last week by ERPD for theft and shoplifting.

East Ridge News Online will provide more information on this incident when it 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.