New Details: Playground Shooting Leaves One Dead

More violence erupts on Chattanooga streets. One person is dead, one is hospitalized and two arrested.

The violence broke out at a Chattanooga playground around five Thursday night.

"It surprised to happen in this neighborhood I've been living here for fifty nine years and we ain't never had no trouble out here," Thophles William says.

But trouble shot through William's neighborhood Thursday night when one crime led to another.

"According to investigators it was a drug deal that went bad," Chattanooga Police Officer Rebecca Royval says.

Police tell us Edward Jackson III and Darryl Williams Jr. were making that drug deal on the playground on the corner of  Queens Drive and Crutchfield Street.
That's when two other men, Antonio Green and Artie Watson, attempted to rob them. A fight ensued and then shots rang out.

"It went pow pow pow and shot three or four times," Marshall Brown, who lives across the street from the playground, tells us.

Police tell us Jackson ran to William's house on Delano Street. He tells us Jackson sat down but didn't say very much.

"Well he was in bad shape cause they had beat the s*** out of him, two guys down there somewhere on the playground they beat him," William says.

William tells us he's not sure why Jackson ran to his house but says he has known Jackson since he grew up playing on the same playground where Thursday's violence erupted.   

"He's a good boy," William says. "The police tell us he shot and killed a guy down there," NewsChannel 9 reporter Will Carr says. "Well I don't know I heard he shot him and then I heard one of the boys was beating him shot the other guy cause they were scuffling over the gun," William responds.

Jackson is charged with Criminal Homicide.

Artie Watson, who was also shot but is alright, is charged with Attempted Aggravated Robbery.

Antonio Green died from the shot to the chest he took Thursday night.

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