The entrance sign is seen Sunday afternoon at the Lakeside Youth Sports Complex off Highway 58, where a man was fatally shot Saturday night.The Saturday night fatal shooting on Swan Road off Highway 58 left many area residents wondering but not surprised.
Chattanooga police were called at 10:04 p.m. Saturday and found a black man dead at the scene. The victim was identified Sunday as 37-year-old Timothy Bumpass.
Police arrested two people Sunday night, Kristopher Lebron Bell, 20, and Christopher Jennings, 19. Bell and Jennings have been charged with felony murder, especially aggravated robbery and criminal conspiracy in the case, police said.
Neighbors on Sunday reported seeing what they believed to be drug-related and other illegal activities going on behind the Lakeside Youth Sports Complex, a cluster of baseball fields and tennis courts and the site of the homicide.
The sports complex off Highway 58 shares the street with small suburban houses. Neighbors on Sunday spoke cautiously and said they didn’t want to give their names.