Three shootings in one day bring Chattanooga’s total to more than 50

Battery Heights is a quiet 144-unit apartment complex with just as many elderly residents as young people, said 25-year-old Reemo Johnson, while sitting on steps outside his apartment there.

But that quiet was shattered early Sunday morning.

Johnson said he had just come home from a club when he heard six gunshots near his window. He watched as fire, police and ambulance vehicles roared onto the scene and a woman was put in the ambulance.

“It was fist fighting when I came up,” said Bobby Goines, another resident of Battery Heights, where police responded at 5:15 a.m. and found a woman with an apparent gunshot wound to her hip. “But guys can’t take a whipping. Now they come and kill you.”