DeAngelo Jelks was driving on Ringgold Road, returning from a trip to pick up books for a school paper, when he heard a familiar sound.
"I heard gunshots - pop, pop, pop, pop, pop," said the 29-year-old, who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq with the Army's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment.
There was no doubt in his mind what he'd heard.
"I know gunfire," the East Ridge resident said Monday evening.
The shots came as he was passing the East Ridge Fire and Police Services Center. He turned his head instantly, he said, and saw an East Ridge police officer with his gun pointed a man lying on the ground.
Police in East Ridge say a man was shot by city officers outside the center shortly after 6 p.m.
