In the midst of responding to traffic wrecks on icy roads downtown Wednesday night, Chattanooga police also were called to investigate a double shooting at a home on the corner of 14th Street.
Around 7:30 p.m., a call came in that two people had been shot during a robbery attempt at 2300 E. 14th St., police said.
Police spokeswoman Jerri Weary said the names of the victims and their conditions were unavailable at press time. She didn’t know whether the robber or robbers had gotten away with anything.
Investigators were gathering information and trying to develop a suspect profile, Weary said. No suspects had been identified as of about 9 p.m. Wednesday, she said.
About 20 minutes after the call, the neighborhood was silent and still except for rain falling. Two police cars were parked near the small frame house with their headlights on. One officer said two people had been taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds.
People were sitting in the back seat of one police car and in an old pickup parked in front of the house.
The lights were off in the home. Next door, a single light shone through a window and a small head peeped between the curtains.
A man walked by on the street, asking police about the condition of one of the people who had been shot.
The man was visibly upset. He wouldn’t identify himself to a reporter but said he was a friend of the one of the victims. His friend, he said, is staying with and taking care of the occupant of the house, who recently had injured his leg.
He said a sister of one of the victims had called him to tell him of the shooting.
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