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Chattanooga’s known violent juvenile suspects by year (Jan. 1 to Oct. 12)Age 10: 2016: 1, 2017: 1, 2018: 1Age 11: 2016: 4, 2017: 0, 2018: 3Age 12: 2016: 2, 2017: 3, 2018: 3Age 13: 2016: 4, 2017: 3, 2018: 7Age 14: 2016: 7, 2017: 5, 2018: 10Age 15: 2016: 16, 2017: 15, 2018: 14Age 16: 2016: 16, 2017: 20, 2018: 14Age 17: 2016: 17, 2017: 23, 2018: 18Statistics include incidents of part one violent crimes: robbery, criminal homicide, forcible rape and aggravated assault.Source: Chattanooga Police Department
A spate of gun violence in Chattanooga over the last three weeks has resulted in 13 shootings that placed juveniles at the center of three homicides.
The tally adds to the growing list of youth accused of violent crime.
So far this year, five juveniles have been arrested in connection with five homicides. That’s up from two last year and none in 2016.
And police say a juvenile was responsible for this year’s first homicide.