Four people now face murder charges in connection with two Chattanooga homicides from December 2020 after the Chattanooga Police Department arrested two more men Thursday.
Willie Lee Wooten Jr., 32, faces one charge of first-degree murder, and Anthony Jermaine George, 36, faces two first-degree murder charges, according to online court records. Another man charged with murder in the case, Cornealious Lebron Beasley, 39, was arrested Monday, in addition to the arrest of Khavell Mailik Williams, 30, in July.
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A press release distributed at the time of Williams’ arrest said the two homicide victims were shot and killed in different homes on the same day, one street away from each other.
Early Dec. 1, 2020, Russell Paris, 61, was found with a gunshot wound outside his home at the 1700 block of South Kelly Street. He later died at a hospital.