‘No good reason’ for woman fatally shot outside Chattanooga apartment

Brandon Bowman, with the Affinity Group, carries bags of carpet from a Dodson Avenue apartment after resident Dwana Dixson was shot early Friday morning. Dixson died at the hospital.

Cars pulled up to No. 103 in the Dodson Avenue Apartments complex at steady intervals Friday morning.

They were filled with the family, friends and neighbors of Dwana Dixson, looking for answers after the 47-year-old was fatally shot outside the apartment early Friday morning.

“Not Dwana. Not like this,” LaTasha Smith, a friend of Dixson’s two daughters, said as she stared at the door to the apartment.

A few minutes earlier, Dixson’s cousin Reba O’Neal had pulled into the parking lot, shaking her head.

“I don’t know why anyone would have any reason to do this to Dwana. There’s no good reason,” she said.