Police investigate shooting in Avondale area of Chattanooga

Police are investigating an afternoon shooting on the 1700 block of Stanfiel Street in the Avondale area of Chattanooga.

At 3 p.m., the street was still taped off and detectives were investigating in and around a home. A neighbor who asked to remain nameless for fear of retaliatory violence said she heard gunfire, but didn't see anything.

"I was cooking and all I heard was a gunshot," she said. "I asked my children and they said they heard it too."

She said she's unaccustomed to violence on her block and her neighbors are upstanding citizens.

"For the most part, everyone over here are decent people," she said. "We're all hardworking people trying to make lives for ourselves."

The shooting comes a day after two men were found shot to death in Highland Memorial Gardens in North Brainerd. Police believe it was a double homicide and are investigating it as a gang-motivated incident.

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