Man sentenced to prison for connection to 2022 Chattanooga shooting

Garrian King (Hamilton County Jail)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — A federal judge sentenced a man to prison for his connection to the 2022 McCallie Avenue shootings.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says U.S. District Judge Travis R. McDonough was in charge of the sentencing.

Judge McDonough sentenced 29-year-old Garrian King to 110 months in prison. This will also be followed by three years of supervised release.

The judge also sentenced King to additional two consecutive years for violating his supervised release in an unrelated case.

On April 12, 2023, King pled guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Court records say that King had already been convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm when he took a gun from his co-defendant.

King “took an Anderson Manufacturing AM-15 AR-pistol with an arm brace from his co-defendant Rodney Harris who had been shot in front of Mary’s Bar and Grill on McCallie Avenue.  King left the scene with the firearm, which law enforcement later recovered,” the U.S. Attorney Office said.