Hamilton County District Attorney Bill Cox; Tim Carroll, Investigator with the District Attorney’s Office; Capt. David Woosley; and Capt. Eric Tucker, from left, talk with Howard School Principal Paul Smith, right, at a crime the scene Tuesday morning on Carr Street. According to police spokesman Nathan Hartwig, a 16-year-old black male was shot and killed.
Courtney D BirtThe body of a Howard School sophomore was found just beyond the front door of an abandoned house on Carr Street on Tuesday morning.
Lamunta Williams, 16, was pronounced dead after he was shot multiple times, including at least once in the head, according to Chattanooga police.
Tonya Jones, Williams’ aunt, choked back tears as she stood just a few homes away from where her nephew was gunned down. Crime scene tape and marked patrol cars prevented her from getting closer.
“A couple of weeks ago he got into it with a girlfriend or something and she was hitting on him and he wound up smacking her back. He wound up going to juvenile [detention] for it,” she said.
Police interviewed three witnesses who say they watched 18-year-old Courtney Birt shoot Williams after hanging out in the abandoned house at 2623 Carr St., a couple of blocks from the school.