UPDATED: Shooting on Ellis Avenue

One man was shot Monday evening in his Ellis Avenue apartment in what appears to have been a home invasion.

According to the East Ridge Police Department, officers were called to 3101 Ellis Ave. at 10:30 p.m.

Two black males had forced their way into an apartment and demanded the victims “give it up,” Capt. Tim Mullinax of the ERPD wrote in a press release. When the victims hesitated, one suspect began firing a weapon, striking the male victim in the thumb.

The suspects then fled in an unknown vehicle.

The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injury.

Capt. Mullinax said the investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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.