Arrest In Thursday Morning Shooting

CHATTANOOGA, TN. – Chattanooga police have made an arrest in a Thursday morning shooting on East 3rd Street.

43-year-old Jeremy Lydell Sawyer is charged with Attempted First Degree Murder, Possessing A Firearm With Intent To Go Armed, and Tampering With Or Fabricating Evidence and has been booked at the Hamilton County Jail. The charges are in connection with the shooting of a 35-year-old man in the 1800 block of East 3rd Street. Police answered an aggravated assault/domestic violence call there at about 9:15 Thursday morning and found the victim with a non-life threatening gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

The exact circumstances of the shooting are still being investigated.