An East Ridge teenager has been accused of first-degree murder after a shooting killed one person and paralyzed another, according to an affidavit of complaint.
Jontae Marshun Duckett, 19, is also facing a charge of especially aggravated robbery in connection with the Aug. 25 incident at Newcastle Apartments.
East Ridge police were dispatched shortly after 3 p.m. to 5700 Roper St. to a report of a shooting.
“The caller described to dispatch hearing what sounded like six gunshots and seeing two males fleeing the area the shots came from,” a sworn law enforcement statement said.
Officers found two men in the stairway upon arrival. Neither of those men were identified in the police statement.