Anthony Edmonds, 53, was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt at a gas station on Ringgold Road on June 30, 2016.
The Kangaroo Express convenience store, at 4011 Ringgold Rd., was the site of a shooting where a customer stopped a robber with his personal weapon in the early hours of Thursday morning. The robber ultimately died from the shooting.A 53-year-old man who was shot and killed by another man during what appeared to be a robbery at a gas station in East Ridge used a meat cleaver to force the store clerk to hand over cash, according to a report from East Ridge police.
Police have finished their investigation into the June 30 shooting and turned the results over to Hamilton County District Attorney General Neal Pinkston, who will decide whether to press criminal charges against the man who shot Anthony Edmonds.
The store clerk told police that Edmonds came into the Marathon gas station at 4011 Ringgold Road just before 2 a.m. He pulled a mask over his face and chased the clerk around the store. The report says Edmonds “gained control” of the clerk and then pulled out a meat cleaver and demanded money from the cash register, which she gave him.
The report does not say how much money Edmonds took.
Then, the clerk said, Edmonds grabbed a rack of cigarettes and started to force her out of the store. At that point, Edmonds encountered the man who would kill him – Charles Russell, 33.