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Sunday, November 15, 2026Nov 15

Witness in Labor Day triple shooting under police protection after death threats

Two people were killed and a third was wounded in a triple shooting in East Brainerd.
Two people were killed and a third was wounded in a triple shooting in East Brainerd.
photo Bystanders move to take cover in a nearby church as a fight breaks out at the scene of a triple shooting in East Brainerd.

On Monday, a woman was shot multiple times but survived an attack that left two others dead.

On Tuesday, police named a suspect in the case: 32-year-old Stephen Mobley, a convicted killer well known on Chattanooga’s streets.

On Wednesday, Mobley surrendered.

The first death threat against the surviving witness came a few hours later, police said.

And hours after that, a local TV station published her name, despite police concerns that this woman’s path could mirror that of Bianca Horton, a witness to a quadruple shooting who was killed in May, four months before she was set to testify in a murder trial following that shooting.