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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- On February 1, 2024, at approximately 8:00 p.m., Chattanooga Police responded to a report of a person shot. Once officers arrived on the scene, they observed a victim suffering from a gunshot wound.
The victim was transported to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.
Homicide Investigators are working to learn the exact circumstances of this incident.
Chattanooga Police ask anyone with information regarding this incident to call the Homicide Tip Line at 423-643-5100.
A Chattanooga man will serve a decade in prison for a brutal attack on his girlfriend. Van Edward Keith III, 45, pleaded guilty to Aggravated Domestic Assault and Arson this week and received a ten year sentence. On June 3, 2022, Keith beat the victim so severely at a home in the 2100 block of Allin Street that she was unable to walk. He then set the house on fire with her still inside and left as the structure burned. The victim, while suffering from compound fractures, managed to pull herself out of the residence and crawled into the street where she started to scream for help.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The Chattanooga Police Department is pleased to announce the recent hire of their new Director of Public Affairs, Ms. Keaira Turner.
A woman suffered burns to her body following an apparent mishap with a candle that sparked an apartment fire on Mountain Creek Road Saturday night. On 1/20/24 at 5:50 PM, Red Shift companies responded to the Alpine Villas Apartments after a resident in the complex called 911 asking for help. Quint 17 found the victim with injuries and she was quickly loaded into an ambulance and transported to the hospital by Hamilton County EMS. Q17 then went into her apartment and found a fully involved bathroom fire.
Blue Shift companies worked their second house fire of the night in frigid conditions. At 2:30 AM on 1/17/24, firefighters responded to a home in the 3900 block of Graceland Trail and found heavy fire coming from the structure. All parties were out of the residence. Crews made an interior attack and conducted searches. It appears that the fire started in the basement and moved up to the second floor. When the floors became spongy, defensive operations were launched for safety reasons.
Two people were displaced by an electrical fire late Tuesday night in Chattanooga. At 10:50 PM on 1/16/24, Blue Shift companies responded to a reported residential fire in the 4100 block of Bonny Oaks Drive, at the corner of Bonny Oaks and Churchill Road. The residents reported smelling something burning inside their home and firefighters found fire in the front corner of the residence. They made an interior and exterior attack, but they couldn’t fully extinguish the fire until EPB arrived and pulled power to the structure. Every time crews tried to check for extension, wires arced.
A huge tree fell on this Hixson home late Tuesday night. The tree crashed into a bedroom, causing extensive damage to the structure at 11:57 PM on 1/9/24. This was in the 5400 block of Towne Hills Lane. Ladder 19 and the Battalion Chief for District 3 Red Shift responded. Several occupants were inside the residence at the time of the incident, but thankfully, they were not injured.