Crime scene tape surrounded the Guesthouse Inn off Shallowford Road Tuesday morning after a man was shot in the hip there during a robbery. The victim’s Chevrolet Caprice Classic is parked out front.Map
2200 Park Drive
Ashok Kumar says he rarely has problems with guests at the Guesthouse Inn, the motel he manages near Hamilton Place.
That’s what makes the Tuesday morning shooting of one of his regular guests especially troubling.
“I’m surprised about it — nobody heard anything happen, and we’ve never had anything like this ever,” said Kumar, whose motel is at 2200 Park Drive.
Chattanooga police are on the lookout for two suspects after the shooting sent a man to a hospital.
Julian Caldwell, 38, told police he was returning to his room about 10:30 a.m. when two masked men approached him and forced him into the room at gunpoint, according to police spokeswoman Sgt. Jerri Weary. Once inside, the two men closed the room’s curtains, told Caldwell to strip and then began ransacking the room.