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Saturday, November 14, 2026Nov 14

Police investigate early morning shooting on Dodds Avenue

Police are still on the scene of a shooting this morning at 1706 Dodds Avenue in the parking lot of the Stop N Go.

Michael Kilgore, 25, was shot in the stomach after he offered to give a man a ride from the Fox and Hound Restaurant to Wilcox Boulevard around 3:30 a.m., said Chattanooga Police spokeswoman Rebecca Royval.

When Kilgore and two other people in the car decided to drop the man off at the Stop N Go, he became angry and pulled out a gun, Royval said.

The man, show is described as a black male in his twenties, began shooting in Kilgore’s direction and a bullet ripped through his stomach, she said.

The suspect fled on foot, and Kilgore was taken to the hospital and released, she said.