Chattanooga police shut down large swaths of the city for hours Thursday to search for the man who shot a police officer three times in Glenwood.
The shooter escaped the massive, five-hour manhunt. The officer survived the shooting and was released from Erlanger hospital after receiving treatment.
The officer was shot at 9:16 a.m. while he was checking for squatters at an abandoned house on Mission Avenue, police Chief Fred Fletcher said. The steep, dead-end street juts into the woods and is lined with squat brick houses.
A man left the vacant building and turned back to fire at the officer, Fletcher said. Neighbor David Oldham said he heard two shots, then a pause, then a volley of shots, perhaps nine or 10.
Fletcher could not say Thursday whether the officer fired at the shooter, and he declined to identify the officer out of concern for his safety.