© Dan Henry/Times Free PressPolice respond to a shots fired call at the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center off of Amnicola Highway on Wednesday.
All available Chattanooga police are responding to two reports of shots fired, one of which indicated that there had been a shooting at the U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center on Amnicola Highway, the site where Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on July 16, killing five U.S. servicemembers.
Despite the calls, police have yet to find evidence of a shooter or find anyone who has seen a shooter, and Chief Fred Fletcher says he believes there is no threat to the public. Still, police have responded out of an "abundance of caution," he said.
Both 911 calls were placed around 10:25 a.m. The other call indicated that at least one shot was fired at the nearby Chattanooga State Community College, which is now on lockdown.
Officers also responded to the Lee Highway recruitment officer where Abdulazeez began his deadly shooting spree this summer, though there are no reports of shots fired at that location.
There are about 30 officers on scene at the naval center at Amnicola Highway and more than a dozen squad cars. Police are armed with automatic rifles. Police say the building is secure and are conducing a search there at this time.
Police have also responded to other "at-risk" locations that Fletcher said he is not willing to disclose.
False reports of shootings are not uncommon. During the July 16 shootings, officers responded to a report of a shooting at Bradley Square Mall that turned out to be false.
There have also been reports of a SWAT on Frazier Avenue, but that incident is unrelated, Fletcher said.
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