A Chattanooga man who was free on a reduced bond on a 2021 murder charge has now had a second murder case bound over to the grand jury, stemming from a fatal drive-by shooting in April.
Marvin Menifee, 20, had been free on bond for two weeks before the April incident. The April 14 fatal shooting claimed the life of Deountay Brown in the 3000 block of Dodson Avenue in East Chattanooga.
In a Wednesday hearing before Hamilton County General Sessions Court Judge Christine M. Sell, Menifee and two co-defendants had their cases bound over to the grand jury. Sell imposed a $500,000 bond on Menifee.
While inside a residence that day in April, Brown had apparently been shot at from a Lincoln Zephyr before it drove away, according to a sworn affidavit from an officer of the Chattanooga Police Department.
“I observed a blood pool in the living room area of the residence where the victim was shot,” the affidavit said.