Chattanooga police Chief Fred Fletcher arrives where a body was found in the parking lot of a doctor’s office on Delawanna Terrace near Pineville Road early Friday morning.THE THREE HOMICIDESWednesday4700 South Terrace Road: Cedric Mikes, 32, was found dead after police received a call about a traffic crash. Mikes’ vehicle had rolled down an embankment. He was found to have been shot.1400 Bennett Ave.: Charles James King, 41, was found dead in a vehicle after police responded to the area on a shots-fired call.FridayDelawanna Terrace and Pineville Road: At 6:45 a.m. police received a call about a suspicious object that turned out to be the body of a white male whom authorities have not publicly identified.
Welcome to Chattanooga, Fred Fletcher.
The Friday morning discovery of a body in a gravel parking lot a few hundred yards from Signal Mountain Road marked the third homicide city police have worked during the new police chief’s first three days on the payroll.
Not to mention six nonfatal shootings in the city’s single most violent week of 2014.
Between June 20 and Friday morning, investigators have crisscrossed the Scenic City mopping up blood; none more than Fletcher, who was sworn into office June 12 and began working well before he officially started on Wednesday.