Ronald L. Blackmon Jr.The bullet that shattered a 25-year-old man’s head was not intended for him, and he never saw it coming.
Ronald L. Blackmon Jr. did not see a gunman stop on Friday, pull out a gun from inside a black and gray vehicle, and fire several shots, planting a bullet in the back of his head.
“They didn’t even see his face. He walked out of his room to go visit a girlfriend and the next thing I hear, he’s at Erlanger,” said Sadie Underwood, Blackmon’s grandmother, who mourned Monday at her home on Hawthorne Street, with family members visiting throughout the day.
Blackmon died the next day, becoming Chattanooga’s fourth homicide victim of 2011.
Blackmon, who had a criminal history including convictions of burglary and robbery, was not in a gang, family members and friends insisted.