A SWAT vehicle is seen along Gillespie Road on Thursday, July 25, 2019 in Chattanooga, Tenn.Crime scene tape lay at the foot of Menlo Park’s sign reading “Family Friendly Community” Friday morning, hours after 20-year-old Devrin Houston was shot and fatally wounded just in front of the sign, located at the intersection of Gillespie and Shallowford roads.
It wasn’t the first shooting to take place on Gillespie Road that Thursday. Just 12 hours earlier, 23-year-old Camaron Billips was shot by police in the 500 block after they said he threatened them with a gun as they carried out a search warrant for illegal firearms.
In just a year’s time, Chattanooga police say there have been 11 calls to 911 for service at the home where police served the warrant (police haven’t released the address) including a shots-fired call just four days before police served the warrant. Four calls were to report a disorder.
Three people – Billips, Demetrius Bibbs, 27, and Carmen Noble, 26 – have now been charged as a result of that search warrant.
A week earlier, a shooting left a 25-year-old man injured in the same block where Houston was killed Thursday evening.