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‘I was trying to put it in park’ and other notable quotes from a week in Chattanooga area news

Staff Photo by Seth Carpenter / Ta'Darius McDaniel appears in Judge Gary Starnes' courtroom at the Courts Building in Chattanooga for his hearing on charges of two counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Staff Photo by Seth Carpenter / Ta'Darius McDaniel appears in Judge Gary Starnes' courtroom at the Courts Building in Chattanooga for his hearing on charges of two counts of attempted first-degree murder.


People who had a way with words in the news last week:

“I was trying to put it in park. By the time I looked down to switch gears, I was already shot.”

— Ta’Darius McDaniel, 23, who is accused of two counts of attempted first-degree murder and other felonies, after deputies accused him of accelerating toward them during a Highway 58 traffic stop.

“The question is, how many times have people been shot on the sheriff’s watch in that vicinity there?”