The Chattanooga Police Department released Friday afternoon the names of the people killed in the early Sunday morning mass shooting incident on McCallie Avenue.
Darian Hixson, 24, Myrakle Moss, 25, and Kevin Brown, 34, died as a result of the Sunday incident in front of Mary's Bar & Grill, according to a Friday news release by the Chattanooga Police Department. Two were killed by gunfire and one was killed by a vehicle as it left the scene of the shooting, however, police did not specify how each of the three victims died.
On Thursday evening several vigils were held across Chattanooga to honor the victims. Hixson was honored in a vigil on the football field at Central High School, her alma mater.
Moss, the mother of a 7-year-old daughter, was honored at the Tennesse Riverpark on Thursday evening.
Brown, a father of three, had an obituary published by his family on the website of the John P. Franklin Funeral Home.
Officers responded to the 2100 block of McCallie Avenue on Sunday morning shortly after 2:30 a.m. after receiving calls reporting that shots had been fired and a person had been shot.
Officers encountered a large crowd of people in the street with several victims suffering from gunshot wounds, according to an affidavit by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which also responded to the scene.
Brown was pronounced dead at the scene and one of the two female fatalities was pronounced dead after being transported to Erlanger hospital, but officials did not specify in earlier news releases which woman it was. Police did not provide any information surrounding the death of the other female victim.
In addition to the three people killed, 14 others were injured. They were transported to both Parkridge and Erlanger hospitals by private vehicles, according to police.
The victims ranged in age from a 16-year-old boy to a 49-year-old woman, according to a police department news release.
During a Sunday afternoon news conference on the steps of City Hall, Police Chief Celeste Murphy and Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly said those responsible for the incident will be found and arrested.
"We know that many of the recent acts of violence in our community revolve around a very small few, often the same over and over again," Kelly said. "Here's my message: We will relentlessly pursue you with all the resources we have at our disposal, we will not stop until you're in police custody."
The ATF announced on Thursday the arrest of Garrian King, 28, and charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, after he admitted to investigators he was temporarily in possession of a rifle that was used in the shootings at Mary's Bar & Grill, according to an affidavit filed Wednesday with the U.S. District Court's Eastern District of Tennessee.
King, who is a member of the Rollin 60 Crips street gang, was seen in a surveillance video carrying a rifle, according to the affidavit.
Agents with the FBI, along with Chattanooga police investigators, questioned King, who admitted to being at Mary's Bar & Grill, the affidavit said. He told investigators initially that he had picked the rifle up after it had been discarded by someone else following the shooting.
However, King later changed his story, according to the affidavit, saying he bought the gun before the shooting and sold it after the shooting.
According to Hamilton County Criminal Court records, King had previously been convicted of two counts possession of a firearm by a felon, one count of possession of a controlled substance with the intent to resell and one count of domestic assault. King was under supervised release from his convictions when the shooting took place, according to the affidavit.
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