Nearly 100 people filled the audience at Tuesday’s Chattanooga City Council meeting, hoping to get some answers about a police shooting Friday that left a man dead. Another few dozen people, too late to get a seat, waited in the lobby.
After council Chair Jenny Hill of North Chattanooga said no questions would be answered Tuesday, all of them got up and left.
Roger Heard Jr., 34, was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital following the shooting at a Speedway gas station at Third Street and Holtzclaw Avenue, according to a Saturday news release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
“Why aren’t these officers suspended?” Gloria Lewis, Heard’s mother, said before the meeting. “And why is my child dead from a so-called traffic stop?”
The TBI is investigating the shooting at the request of Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp, the release said.