Man robbed, shot at Crown Inn motel in East Ridge

Crown Inn

A man told East Ridge police he was ambushed and shot in a motel room Sunday morning.

According to Capt. Tim Mullinax with the East Ridge Police Department, a shots-fired call came in shortly after 9 a.m.

Officers raced to the Crown Inn, 6642 Ringgold Road, to find an empty motel room spattered with blood. At about the same time, Parkridge East hospital call police to report that a white male had arrived at the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the right calf.

Mullinax said the man, whose name was not released, told investigators he met an aquaintance who invited him to her room. He told police there were two armed men in the room who drew handguns and demanded money.