Young Person Arrested for 52 Year Old Man's Death

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Jessica Morris

April 7, 2007 - 11:11PM

We have new information about Friday night's shooting on Angela Drive where someone attacked a man and left him outside to die. Chattanooga Police are charging a 15-year old in the death of 52-year old Gregory Anderson.

Investigators say the two got into a family dispute that ended with the young person shooting Anderson who collapsed on a front yard.

Anderson was taken to Erlanger, and rushed into surgery. He later died at the hospital.

The juvenile faces a charge of first degree murder and is being held at Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center.

www.newschannel9.com/articles/anderson_11207___article.html/_.html

[Felix]

Is it just my perception, or have there been a lot of killings in Chattanooga already this year? Especially the past few weeks. Shootings, bludgenings, knifing--a lot of blood spilt.

[Kordax]

The juvenile faces a charge of first degree murder and is being held at Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center.
News Channel 9


The juvenile has been charged with first-degree murder and is currently being detained at the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center.
Because the suspect is a juvenile his name will not be released.
Chattanoogan

Thug in custody -- GREAT!

But what's his damn name? Tennessee permits naming the names of juvenile thugs arrested for murder -- the Tennessean routinely names names -- catch up, Chattanooga & give the public a decent dose of information....

[Kordax]

From the archives of the Tennessean (abreviated articles):

January 30, 2003
Authorities can't explain quick rise By SHEILA BURKE Staff Writer The number of juveniles accused of robbery in Nashville has jumped 72% from 2000 to 2002, but authorities are at a loss to explain why. Arrests increased from 46 in 2000 to 79 two years later. Among the high-profile arrests during that three-year period were Stratford High student Alexander Christopher Cullom, 17, who was arrested in October and accused of being a serial robber, and Richard Wheeler,

June 18, 2005
MURFREESBORO Court releases name of murder suspect, 17 Rutherford County Juvenile Court yesterday released the name of a 17-year-old boy charged with killing his stepfather with a sword after The Tennessean filed a petition to make the name public. Quintell Deshon Hardy was charged with first-degree murder last month after his stepfather, Keith J. Williams, 37, was found at his Murfreesboro house. Williams suffered a substantial wound to his upper chest, authorities said.

July 29, 2006
Teen in stabbing case to be tried as adult A 16-year-old accused in the brutal stabbing deaths of a south Nashville woman and her teenage daughter will be tried for murder as an adult, a Juvenile Court judge ruled Friday. Five fingerprints link Jose Sosa to the April crime scene at 3907 Creekwood Drive, police testified at a hearing Thursday. But there is no indication of a motive for the slayings of Lori Ann Rountree, 44, and her daughter Adrian Rountree, 16.

January 19, 2001
ASSISTANT DA: CASE SHOWS JUVENILE PROGRAMS INADEQUATE By KIRK LOGGINS Staff Writer Andrew Levi Jefferson, 19, spent much of his adolescence in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, after being accused of murder when he was 13 and then convicted of using a gun to try to rob three teen-agers when he was 14. He pleaded guilty yesterday to taking part in a robbery and murder when he was 17 -- only four months after he had completed more than two years

September 1, 2006
By SHEILA BURKE Staff Writer A teenager accused of shooting two people during a gang dispute at Opry Mills mall must remain in custody after he was rearrested on an additional charge while free awaiting criminal proceedings in the attempted murder case, a Juvenile Court referee decided Thursday. But the two victims who were shot in the mall July 15 are still refusing to testify against Keair-us Rico Wilson, 17, a prosecutor said after the detention hearing for the teen.

October 28, 1999
By KATHY CARLSON A Nashville teen-ager was arrested yesterday on a criminal homicide charge in the Sept. 10 slaying of a west Nashville businessman, police said. Phillip White Jr., 16, of 202 Tuckahoe Square, was apprehended at a group home in Memphis to which he had been sent by the Davidson County Juvenile Court in an unrelated case, Murder Squad detective Al Gray said. White was charged yesterday with criminal homicide, attempted especially aggravated robbery and unlawful possession

November 8, 1999
The State Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform, appointed by the governor to rewrite juvenile laws, wants to snatch the discretion away from judges and prosecutors. That disappointing recommendation should be rejected. In a 10-6 vote, the commission recommended a change that would send juveniles 15 and over, charged with violent crimes, straight to adult criminal court. There would be no exceptions, and the juveniles would not be allowed a hearing before a juvenile court judge

February 6, 2001
By SUE McCLURE Staff Writer COLUMBIA, Tenn. -- One of two 17-year-olds charged in connection with the Jan. 24 execution-style shooting of a 19-year-old was ordered to stand trial as an adult yesterday, while his companion will face similar charges in Juvenile Court. Darnell Norwood of Columbia saw his case transferred to Circuit Court after a 10-hour Juvenile Court hearing before Maury County Judge George Lovell. He faces charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and felony murder

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From the Tennessee Code Annotated:

49-6-3051. Parental or guardian notice to school of child's criminal offenses. —

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, when a student initially enrolls in an LEA, resumes school attendance after suspension, expulsion, or adjudication of delinquency, or changes schools within the LEA, the parents, guardians, or custodians, including the department of children's services acting in any capacity, shall provide to the school principal the abstract provided for under § 37-1-153 or § 37-1-154, or other similar written information, if such student has ever been adjudicated delinquent for an offense involving first degree murder, second degree murder, rape, aggravated rape, aggravated robbery, especially aggravated robbery, kidnapping, aggravated kidnapping, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, or felony reckless endangerment. Such information shall be shared only with employees of the school having responsibility for classroom instruction of the child, but such information is otherwise confidential and shall not be shared by school personnel with any other person or agency except as may otherwise be required by law. This written notification shall not become a part of such child's student record.



Take a look at the crimes juvenile scum commit & still -- S T I L L receive the benefits of legally sanctioned secrecy. This makes me sick to the pit of my bone encased stomach that the misguided State of Tennessee routinely mainstram predators back into normal classroom, seals their disgusting record (only the principal knows & what he knows isn't accurate, complete or informative) so that unsuspecting parents don't jerk their kids out of skools teeming with violent thugs free to prey on their unsuspecting fellow classmates.

Vile, gross, horrid, inexplicable juvenile "justice" system ....

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I agree. We should lower the age of a "juvenile" from 18 YOA to 15 YOA in my opinion.

The Juvenile Justice System was not designed, nor equipped (in this day and time) to deal with the younger and younger predators that now exist and are preying on our society with virtual immunity.

Juvenile Court was originally intended to deal with "Status Offenses" which are offenses that are crimes based on the age of the defendant, such as truancy, smoking/drinking under age, unruly child, runaways, etc. These are the "Crimes" that Judge Dixie Smith dealt with and did so with the correction of the child in mind. It usually worked back then. Deal with the child when he was "under age" before he graduated to real crimes.

Now, 12 and 13 year olds are committing murder, rapes and robberies and the Juvenile Court should not be the venue for these crimes.

They want to commit adult crimes, they can do adult time.

I happen to believe that Judge Bailey is one of the absolute finest judges in the entire state, if not the Southeast. She does what she can under the law. She also remands adult cases into adult court when the facts permit it. But she also has to follow the law handed down by the legislators.

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Case in point..........

Teen Charged with Murder Could Be Tried as Adult

A juvenile charged in the city's second weekend homicide is being held without bond.

Investigators say a 15-year-old boy shot Gregory Anderson, who died Saturday morning at Erlanger Medical Center. He was found lying in a yard on Angela Drive late Friday night. Police say a family fight broke out, and the teen shot Anderson.

The boy is charged with first degree murder. The state wants him transferred to adult court. A hearing on that matter will take place at a later date.

wrcb.com/news/index.cfm?sid=7484

I think if the Hearing is held in the Court of the Honorable Judge Suzanne Bailey, dude with be remanded, forthwith.

[Kordax]

I happen to believe that Judge Bailey is one of the absolute finest judges in the entire state, if not the Southeast. She does what she can under the law. She also remands adult cases into adult court when the facts permit it. But she also has to follow the law handed down by the legislators.

When I criticize the juvenile justice system repeatedly & disparage the level of non-justice administered, it's not a personal issue I'm harboring against Judge Bailey (I also know her, like her & have worked with her inside several organizational types of things); my beef is with the state proscribed role that juvenile judges & the entire juvenile court system fills in Tennessee society. They’re set up to give juvenile offenders a series of endless 2nd chances, and as the above slice of the TN Code states, juvenile predators are, by law, secretly mainstreamed back into classrooms which puts every kid in that skool at great risk. Juvenile court people are closer to social workers than anything else, and without having worked the day in, day out routine in the criminal justice system, I see that approach as a colossal failure -- even worse, a tireless enabler in teaching street-wise kids that there’s really no penalty or sufficient punishment awaiting them when they prey on others.

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I see that approach as a colossal failure -- even worse, a tireless enabler in teaching street-wise kids that there’s really no penalty or sufficient punishment awaiting them when they prey on others.

And you hit the nail directly on the head.