Nathan B. Lalone, a 20-year-old Ooltewah man, has been charged in the shooting death Wednesday night of a 19-year-old man.A man accused of fatally shooting a second man Wednesday night also threatened to kill someone else earlier this year, according to court records.
Nathan B. Lalone, 20, pleaded guilty to an assault charge stemming from a January incident in which he punched a window at a residence on Apison Pike and threatened to come back to kill a woman. He received a suspended sentence of 11 months and 29 days and was placed on probation.
Ten months later, Lalone, who lives in Ooltewah, faces charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder. Police say he lured 19-year-old Christian Sosa to a parking lot near a lit tennis court in the 4500 block of Bill Jones Road and opened fire.
“I heard what sounded like fireworks,” said Cathy Zuehlke, who lives across the street from the park, recalling as many as seven gunshots. “It wasn’t but a second after that I heard a car that went up the road, going fast.”
As of Thursday night, no bond had been set for Lalone, who was in Hamilton County Jail.