Evan Fields Derry was 20 and a student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga when he was shot on the night of December 28, 2017. Police responded to reports of gunfire on the 7600 block of North Bishop Drive and found a black Chevrolet Tahoe wrecked in the roadway; Evan was inside, unresponsive and suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital and did not survive.

Investigators quickly treated the death as a homicide and publicly named 22-year-old Terrence Dewayne Lewis of Chattanooga as a suspect, alleging Lewis shot Evan while Evan was driving, causing the crash. Lewis was arrested and charged with criminal homicide and especially aggravated robbery, but a Hamilton County grand jury later declined to indict on those original counts and the charges were dropped. Detectives continued the investigation and in September 2019 secured new warrants and rearrested Lewis on criminal homicide and robbery counts tied to the 2017 shooting; he was released on bond pending trial.

Evan’s family and friends remember him as a creative, outdoors-loving son and student. The killing remains the focus of ongoing prosecutions and investigation. Did anyone in the Chattanooga area see or hear anything on North Bishop Drive that night?