Emergency medical services remove the body of a man found shot to death early Saturday morning while a wrecker waits to remove his vehicle. A man was discovered shot to death in his vehicle at a gas station at the corner of Shallowford Road and North Moore Road early Saturday morning. The shooting was believed to have occurred elsewhere on Shallowford.The crook of the L-shaped Briarcliff Way was full of cars Saturday afternoon.
A somber-looking group of people mingled outside the house where Chainessa Cummings’ brother Quincy Bell lived. As Cummings stood in the street, away from the group, a man driving by leaned out his window and said, “Keep your head up.”
Bell, 20, who was Cummings’ older brother, was found shot inside his vehicle outside the Kangaroo gas station at the corner of Shallowford Road and North Moore Road shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they believe Bell was shot in the 3800 block of Shallowford Road and drove to the gas station where his body was found.
Bell’s death is the first fatality of the four shootings that occurred in Chattanooga last week.
Cummings said she wasn’t sure of anything about the situation surrounding her brother’s death, including whether he was targeted.