With two weekend shootings added to the growing list of more than a dozen so far this year, Chattanooga police say they need the public’s help to solve the cases.
“Only the people who live in the neighborhoods and are witnesses have that information” needed to help solve the crimes, said Officer Rebecca Royval, spokeswoman for the Chattanooga Police Department. “If they don’t pass that along to us, it makes the job really difficult.”
The two shootings Saturday, which took place about five hours and five miles apart, could be gang-related, said Lt. Tim Carroll, who heads the police department’s major crimes division.
CALL CRIME STOPPERSIf you have any information about Saturday’s shootings, or any other crime in Chattanooga, you can make an anonymous call to the Crime Stoppers line at 698-3333.
Just before 4:30 p.m. Saturday a juvenile was shot in the left side of the neck while seated in an SUV at the intersection of Rogers Road and North Parkdale. He was then driven to 5006 North Moore Lane — where police responded to the call — before being transported to Erlanger hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, Officer Royval said.