Nobody could say Tirrell Shropshire wasn’t a career criminal.
His adult record of robberies, assaults, carjacking, theft and other assorted charges dates back 17 years – more than half his life – and shows multiple arrests every year that he wasn’t in prison.
That career ended early Wednesday morning when somebody shot the 35-year-old in the head on Rawlings Street.
Shropshire’s death is the 10th homicide of the year in Chattanooga, putting the toll one ahead of last year at the same time. And it happened practically next door to a double shooting that injured two people, one critically, in late March.
Chattanooga police said officers responded at 2:26 a.m. to a “person shot” call on the 1900 block of Rawlings Street, a residential neighborhood off North Orchard Knob Avenue. They found Shropshire’s body lying on the sidewalk.