Chattanooga police investigators examine a truck in the 400 block of Frazier Drive in Brainerd, where a 21-year-old man was shot to death in November 2015.Chattanooga hasn’t had a single homicide in 2016 – the longest stretch without a killing in the city at the start of a new year in at least the last five years.
In 2015, the city made it just 20 minutes before the first person – 24-year-old Deoaunte Dean – was killed. His death was followed three hours later with the city’s second homicide, 18-year-old Juan Boyd.
First homicide of the year
› 2016: —› 2015: Jan. 1› 2014: Jan. 5› 2013: Jan. 10› 2012: Jan. 7› 2011: Jan. 6Source: Times Free Press records
Since 2011, the longest Chattanooga has gone without a homicide at the start of the year was nine days in 2013.
“Every day that we can go without having someone hurting someone else, I think is just truly a blessing and I hope those days continue to add,” said James Moreland, president of the Avondale Neighborhood Association. “Two days, 10 days, 20 days, one month, 3 months – I just encourage young people, old people not to hurt each other.”