Rosa Chatman, 56, was found dead in her College Hill Courts apartment.Chattanooga police arrested a man today in the April 15 homicide of 56-year-old Rosa Chatman.
Bruce Stevenson, 58, is charged with criminal homicide and aggravated assault.
Police believe Stevenson killed Chatman inside her College Hill Courts apartment sometime before she was found dead on April 15.
The grandmother and long-time volunteer at Woodmore Elementary School was beaten so severely that her skull fractured and she suffered bleeding around her brain.
When Chatman was discovered by Chattanooga Housing Authority employees during a routine inspection on April 15, she also had a six-inch gash in her neck and was naked.
She was the ninth person to be killed in Chattanooga during 2015 and was the last of three people to die during a particularly violent week in April, when the city saw three homicides in five days.