Senior Judge Don Ash on Tuesday dismissed two charges against activists Marie Mott and Cameron Williams, leaders of last summer's racial injustice protests in Chattanooga, and sent their remaining charges to the grand jury.
Gun violence in the city has held steady, though.
Chattanooga police arrested a man Wednesday for a March 14 shooting in College Hill Courts that left one man injured.
Chattanooga police and the Hamilton County District Attorney's Office are asking the public for help in solving two December shootings that left two senior citizens dead.
A Chattanooga woman was arrested Friday in connection with a March 31 shooting that left two women injured.
A man shot and killed the mother of his two children as they sat beside her at the edge of their bed just after midnight on Good Friday, according to Hamilton County court records.
A federal magistrate judge denied this week Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Detective Blake Kilpatrick's request to put a lawsuit on hold as the U.S. Department of Justice investigates the detective for a 2018 arrest in which a viral video showed him punching and kicking a handcuffed Black man.
After a Saturday fire damaged three floors of Patten Towers and left the apartment building condemned until repairs are made, all 184 residents have been placed in temporary shelters as of Thursday.
Former Chattanooga police Sgt. Jonathan Watkins was demoted earlier this year after getting on the dispatch radio to call Rossville, Georgia, police "too chicken" to handle what Watkins believed was a burglary in progress within Chattanooga city limits last year.
Joseph Padilla of Cleveland, Tennessee, pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday to 12 charges related to his actions during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C.
