A Chattanooga police officer works the scene of a shooting at The Pinewood apartments on Pinewood Avenue that sent one victim to the hospital early in the evening Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Police on the scene said the victim was transported by a personal vehicle.A Thursday night shooting ended a two-week stretch of no gun violence in Chattanooga and interrupted a rare calm ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, a traditionally violent week in the city.
Geonta Gaines, 21, was shot in the back early in the evening while getting into a vehicle at the Pinewood Apartments in Chattanooga.
Before that, the city had gone 15 days without a single shooting. The only other time the city has gone as long without a shooting this year was in July, when a hiatus stretched for 23 days.
Despite the recent lull, more people have been shot so far in 2016 than at this point in 2015. There have been 119 shootings this year, compared to 103 at this point in 2015, according to Times Free Press records.
Much of that year-over-year increase was driven by a surge of gang-related gun violence in April, police Chief Fred Fletcher said. The city saw 19 shootings that month, more than twice as many as the seven recorded in April 2015, according to Times Free Press records.