Suspect arrested in ramming of Chattanooga police car

Luster Dewayne Deloney

A car rolling through a stop sign started a chain of events Sunday night that ended with a Chattanooga police officer firing four shots and a high-speed escape.

Police arrested a suspect Monday. Luster Deloney, 20, is charged with reckless endangerment, aggravated assault, vandalism and a slew of traffic charges.

The shooting happened near 3300 Windsor Court around 8 p.m. Sunday. Officer Alex Olson saw a Nissan Altima drive through a stop sign and attempted to pull the car over. Deloney, who was driving, first pulled into a driveway on Windsor Court, but then he quickly pulled out and kept driving on the dead-end, residential road, according to the affidavit.

At the end of the street, the car stopped. Olson got out of his patrol car and moved behind it for cover. That’s when Deloney put the Altima in reverse and rammed it into the patrol car, pushing the car into Olson, according to the affidavit.

The officer fired four shots, one of which blew out the Altima’s tire, according to the affidavit. But the driver backed quickly out of the dead-end street, turned the car and sped away.