With 18 shooting victims, June has been Chattanooga’s most active month for gun violence this year.
Just between June 19 – the day Robert Gill, 29, was shot and killed – and June 29, there were nine shootings resulting in 10 victims, two of whom were teenagers – a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl.
In the girl’s case, a bullet grazed her foot while she was in her East 35th Street home on June 26, Chattanooga police said. As for the boy, he showed up at a local hospital with a gunshot wound on June 29. Details about what happened, including the location of the incident, are still unknown.
Gill, who was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in 3200 block of South Street, was buried on June 29.
He “lived life to the fullest, and was deeply loved by his family, friends and his only daughter,” his obituary reads.