Police Investigating Friday Night Shooting

East Ridge police are investigating the shooting of a man on Edwin Lane late Friday night.

According to Hamilton County 911, East Ridge officers were dispatched to 1115 Edwin Lane at 11:46 p.m. on a person shot. Officials said that when police arrived they encountered a male victim who had been shot in the leg.

Assistant Police Chief Stan Allen said Saturday morning that the victim told officers that he was standing on the corner when a man emerged from a house at 1122 Edwin Lane and fired four shots at him, one striking the man in the leg.

Chief Allen said that several people who were inside the Edwin Lane address – which is presumably an unoccupied house – had fled when police arrived. Officers were able to locate one man who was brought back for possible identification by the victim as the man who shot him. Allen said the victim did not identify the person in custody as his assailant.

East Ridge News Online will update this story when more information 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.