A city camera at an intersection near the 2100 block of McCallie Avenue was malfunctioning at the time of a shooting Sunday, but Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy said it is not stalling the investigation.
“We still have very good leads that are leading us towards identification of the suspects in that matter, but that’s a problem that I had to hold on to and we’re going to fix in the future,” Murphy told members of Chattanooga City Council on Tuesday during the panel’s first regular meeting since the shooting.
The incident after 2 a.m. Sunday left three people dead and 14 injured. Two died from gunshots and another was hit by a vehicle while fleeing the gunfire. Police have declined to release names of any of the victims.
It was Chattanooga’s second consecutive weekend shooting, the first of which injured six teenagers in the city’s tourism district May 28. A 15-year-old has been arrested in that shooting.
Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod, of Eastdale, mentioned the camera during the chief’s presentation to the City Council. Murphy said the department is looking at alternative measures to make sure the city is able to reinstall cameras quicker.