A woman’s cries could be heard amid the bustle of crime scene investigators after two men were shot in the 1400 block of Carousel Road in East Chattanooga Tuesday evening.
One of the men died and the other was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, authorities said. Police did not yet have the men’s ages or information about what may have motivated the shootings.
Chattanooga police work the scene of a shooting on Carousel Rd. on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.Preliminary information did not indicate that the shootings were connected to Sunday morning’s shooting outside Southside Social that left one woman dead and another injured, but police spokesman Rob Simmons said police will learn more as the investigation continues.
The man’s death marked Chattanooga’s fourth homicide of 2018. By this time last year, there had been only two homicides, while in 2016 there had been three, according to Times Free Press records.
Many residents were outside at the time of the shootings, Simmons said. And many were still outside watching later as police collected evidence and spoke to witnesses.