Sunday ends with three shot, girl in critical condition

Police respond after Anthony Sherard, 26, was shot Oct. 16 in the Alton Park area.
Police respond after Anthony Sherard, 26, was shot Oct. 16 in the Alton Park area.
photo Dispatchers received six calls about gunfire in Chattanooga Sunday night in a 45 minute stretch.
photo Police respond after Anthony Sherard, 26, was shot Oct. 16 in the Alton Park area.

A girl is in critical condition in a local hospital after being shot Sunday night in Chattanooga at the end of a violent day.

Hamilton County dispatchers received six calls between 10:23 p.m. and 11 p.m. about gunfire in Chattanooga.

The calls came at the end of a day in which two men were shot in separate incidents earlier in the day.

Police responded to the late-night scenes and found the juvenile girl on the 4100 block of Kirkland Ave with a gunshot wound to the shoulder, Chattanooga Police Department spokesman Victor Miller confirmed.

Her identity will not be released by the police department or the Times Free Press.

Police did not find victims or crime scenes at the other locations.

Dispatchers received the call about the girl who was shot on Kirkland Ave. at 10:48 p.m.

Two additional "shots fired" calls were received at 10:23 p.m. and 10:24 p.m. from Calhoun Ave. and East 38th St., respectively. The two locations are less than a half mile apart.

Three "shots fired" calls came at 10:59 p.m. and 11 p.m. from Kirby Ave., Bennett Ave. and East 12th Street. All three locations are within a half mile of each other.

Miller said police only found a victim at Kirkland Ave. and did not locate a crime scene or victim at any of the other late-night locations.

Several of the incidents were later removed from the active incidents page. You can view that page here.

The spate of gunfire comes at the end of a week police suspected would turn violent.

Police chief Fred Fletcher said last Monday that the fall break period for local schools is typically a violent week on the streets.

"We know that because of our dramatic progress in building a data-driven, intelligence-led police department supported by a real crime analysis unit and a real intelligence unit," he said in a news conference at police headquarters.

Hamilton County schools return to session Monday after letting out for fall break on Friday, Oct. 7.

There were four confirmed shootings between Oct. 7-9.

"During this same time period last year - fall break - we saw five shootings in four days," Fletcher said at last week's news conference. "We are getting better and better at putting cops out there, getting them in the fight and putting them in jail."

Police arrested two gang members last Monday night in connection with a shots fired incident on Rossville Boulevard.

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